Willie Mays Quotes

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

Willie Mays

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I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.

Andrew Zimmern

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In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Andres Serrano

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I want to mix, match, take something off, move the ball around.

Matt Cain

WantBallTakeSomethingMoveOff

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

Michael Cudlitz

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The government never does anything successfully.

Michael Badnarik

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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

John Paul Stevens

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I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

Amanda Palmer

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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Amor Towles

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People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

Ry Cooder

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I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.

Diane Ladd

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A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.

Brendan I. Koerner

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I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

Art Alexakis

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