David Grann Quotes

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth.

David Grann

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The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

John Cleese

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I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

Angus Young

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Albums take a lot out of you.

Travie McCoy

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Let sleeping dogs lie.

Robert Walpole

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I got fired - November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said - Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me - I said, 'Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.'

Dick Vitale

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Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

Dean Ornish

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If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

David Warner

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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

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Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

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I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Anson Mount

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