Vida Blue Quotes
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
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Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
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Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long time to see the world as I want it without constantly looking for approval. I still fall, but I'm better suited for survival.
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The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.
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Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.
