I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
Stephen Root
Recitation: by Male by Female
I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
Joaquin Andujar
BackHardBallMilesJustThrow
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford
ArtPoliticsSoulHonorThings
At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.
Michael Gerber
SuccessFailureYouDeadPointIdea
I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.
John T. Chambers
GoodBusinessKnowledgePeopleMom
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.
Sonny Rollins
TimeEnjoyNewJazzMorePlaying
I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.
Trudie Styler
FatherFarmUpCountrysideWhere
I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.
Tracy Morgan
LovePeopleWantUnderstandTalk
I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.
Tom Vilsack
AppreciationPeopleAmericaWishYou
Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make it seem fresh and relevant.
Michael Korda
AgeNothingMoreDifficultRight
I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'
Joshua Ostrander
MusicSoulResearchReadingDoing
As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.
Jason Day
WorkGameGolfBodyDownYoung
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
Dolores Huerta
PeopleViolenceTryingDownRunUs
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