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Douglas Brunt Quotes

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 25, 1971

Topics

Baseball Professional Salary First

If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

Good Time Light Ugly Me Colors

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

Life Power Me Create Know Way

I had another version of 'We Dance' that was kind of glam-rock. It was a little 'Taking Care of Business' mixed with Simon and Garfunkel. But on the album, I did it in a down-and-out way, like the Frogs or David Bowie or something - a little torch song thing.

Stephen Malkmus

Business Dance Song Care Kind Way

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Forward You Back Know Important Up

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

Colors Being Whole Palette Theater

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.

Racism People Small Blind Help You

All of these 'protections' were put into place to provide public school teachers with the kind of job security and cushy work rules that United Auto Workers have enjoyed.

Work Job School Rules Security Kind

When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.

Decision Me Opinion Colleagues Right

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Roots Young Jazz Rock Two Out

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

Life Change Fun My Life Movies Rock

I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

Life Friend Child Reading My Life

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Bird Man Rose Fall First Original

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