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baseball football country
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Bobby Fischer
baseball team people
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
baseball running home
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.
baseball player television
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
baseball play red
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
baseball culture speak
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
baseball volleyball eye
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record
baseball tradition profit
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
baseball athletic terrible
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. Matt Long
character honor foundation
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer
character writing interesting
I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there. Debby Ryan
character light plot
My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen. Christopher Nolan
character interesting alive
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being. Christopher Reeve
character results ready
I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.
character looks reason
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look. Christopher Walken
character mean thinking
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
character born
Characters are born from necessity. Christopher Paolini
character hard-work years
TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. Christopher Meloni
kids play oil
As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line. Demi Lovato
kids passion space
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space." Alfonso Cuaron
kids technology law
A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.
kids people want
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
kids feelings important
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them. Alfie Kohn
kids thinking land
America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films. Andrew Garfield
kids men tough-times
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
kids winning games
We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games. Amy Stephens
kids rocks my-best-friend
I feel like you know what you're going to be good at when you're older based on what you like when you're younger. When I was younger my best friend was Tony, this kid Tony, and he loved rocks. He was always playing with rocks, counting them, and now he's a crack head. Amy Schumer