Ben Zobrist Quotes
We've got to do better at taking care of players and making sure the fans get the best of the players when they're showcasing their abilities.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
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There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.
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I try to make music, all kinds of music, whether it be singing or rapping.
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Stripe was very much the product of our past experiences.
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To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.
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We've got to do better at taking care of players and making sure the fans get the best of the players when they're showcasing their abilities.
