Ben Zobrist Quotes
I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.
