Ben Zobrist Quotes
I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.
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I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
