Carlos Ruiz Quotes
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.
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Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
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Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
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I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.
