Tony Oliva Quotes

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

Tony Oliva

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ChangeTodayMoneyPeopleBelieve

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.

Jens Lekman

PeopleMeWorldThinkingLovedLong

Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom.

Melvin Van Peebles

SimpleMeYouNobodyTopBottom

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

Mekhi Phifer

LoveMindMeWorldThinkYou

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

Angela Duckworth

GoodTeacherTimeSchoolLunchYear

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

CarPeopleThinkSomeoneYouNice

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Steven Pinker

KnowledgeHistoryWorldBoundaries

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

Tom Petty

ThinkDoingQuitNeverCapable

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

Josh Turner

GentleFanGiantHeWilliams

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

Denis Leary

BelieveBetterFeelingI Believe

I think you learn to value the important things in life.

David Silva

LifeValueThinkLearnYouThings

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

Antonio Banderas

ThinkMoreUsGovernI ThinkAny

I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.

Atticus Shaffer

LoveDoingImpressionsAccents

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