Ken Caminiti Quotes
They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.
