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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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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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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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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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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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
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You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.
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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.
