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Ernie Banks Quotes

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Ernie Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1931 - January 23, 2015

Topics

Patience Value People Me Values Ask

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Jim Cooper

Government Budget Achieve President

That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a weird sensation - like all my skin and flesh was being pulled off my bones.

Jenson Button

Weird Wall Skin Big Bones Off

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

Meghan Markle

Girl Way Out Up Her Buying

Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules.

John Legend

You Early Rules Urgency Rock Punk

We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

Michael Hayden

Live Hope Democracy Decisions You

'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he embraced the imperial mission of the Russian people.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Son People Mission Said Become Used

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.

Rivers Cuomo

Great Quality Performance Think Flow

We try to make our own BTS context. Maybe it's risky to bring some inspiration from novels from so long ago, but I think it paid off more. It comes through like a gift box for our fans. That's something you can't find easily from American artists.

Gift Think American Long You Find

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Rosanna Arquette

Business Music Become Big

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days. Everything was very rapid and very fast, and so all of us submerged into the deep end and only really came up for air once we had wrapped.

Rose Leslie

Deep End Fast Air Everything Days

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

Mika

Myself Artist Look Too Much Person

Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you aren't - is the antithesis of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.

Jared Polis

Freedom Water Yourself Foundation