Rod Carew Quotes

You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

Rod Carew

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DriveYouPlayKnowClubUp

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Jennifer Aniston

FunnyFindJustReadVeryScripts

Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.

Angela Duckworth

PeoplePerformanceComfort ZoneGoal

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.

Amanda Foreman

QueenFakePortraitArtistTable

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Stefano Gabbana

InformedWellCustomersDemanding

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

Stephanie Zimbalist

ManSweetHormonesIssuesOurOh

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

Robin Marantz Henig

RelationshipChildrenParentsThink

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

LoveEyebrowsHerBecauseRemind

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

Rupert Sheldrake

FreeBelievePowerfulBackWillSet

I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.

Michaela Coel

PeopleFeelUncomfortableWheatLike

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.

Jose Carreras

GoodProblemEnoughCareerI CanUp

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

MistakePeopleDesignTryingFools

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Art Spiegelman

WorkTrustEnoughWorthYouMeasure

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