Ben Zobrist Quotes
There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.
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Nobody is going to believe what you're saying if you don't believe it yourself.
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I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.
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You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
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There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.
