Mark Kurlansky Quotes

Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.

Mark Kurlansky

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I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

John Abraham

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Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

John Lasseter

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For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.

Jeff Lemire

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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

Claire Danes

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The drums are very trashy: it's all electric, it's very in your face, and it's not perfect. It's raw, and I think that's what 'garage' means.

Aubrie Sellers

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This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.

Peter C. Doherty

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For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

Sheri L. Dew

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But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Scott Hamilton

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You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

Lynn Davies

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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Lionel Blue

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With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

Kristaps Porzingis

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