Matt Kemp Quotes

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1984

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I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

Jerry Reed

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Writing well about sports is as difficult as writing well about sex.

John Gregory Dunne

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No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

Max von Sydow

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The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

Stella Young

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I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

Sturgill Simpson

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You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.

Steve Scalise

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Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Pretty much all my mother's side is Kiwi, and we have a strong Maori heritage.

Robert Whittaker

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If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.

Julia Stiles

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Jordan Peterson

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For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

Johnny Weir

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