Mariano Rivera Quotes
My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I love New York. Love it.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!
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I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.
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My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
