Jon Lester Quotes

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

Jon Lester

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NightGameChanceYouKnowNever

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Melissa Mathison

ChildrenParentsStoryFeelFatGo

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Melissa Peterman

ExperienceMomWritingShortPerfect

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes

WorkArtDesignNothingWayEver

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

Ann Nocenti

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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

Andy Grammer

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I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Roger Waters

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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

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There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

Rosemarie DeWitt

LiveGodParentingControlThink

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Judah Friedlander

ThinkYouNeedRealThingsKeep

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

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On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

Josef Albers

MoneyGoFirstLittleLivedBerlin

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

Dionne Warwick

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