Ben Zobrist Quotes

You want to be comfortable, but it's also good to stay on your toes, especially in the midst of a long season.

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Science

• I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Family
  • Color
  • Embarrassed

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Great
  • Money
  • Man

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • God
  • Sports
  • Face

• The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• I like new challenges and new experiences.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Challenges
  • New
  • Experiences

• Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Problem
  • Busy

• All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Women
  • Heart

• White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.

  

  Jess Row
  • People
  • Trying
  • Color

• Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Age

• Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

  

  James MacArthur
  • Good
  • Success

• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Money
  • Happy

• You want to be comfortable, but it's also good to stay on your toes, especially in the midst of a long season.

  

  Ben Zobrist
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