Jacob deGrom Quotes
I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
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Once a year ask the boss, 'What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?' and 'What do I or my people do that hampers you?'
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
