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Frank Robinson Quotes

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1935

Topics

Walk Nobody First Going Like Some

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

John G. D. Clark

Look Evolution Human Turn Tell Us

What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.

Wait Generation Back Go New Out

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

Heaven Dying Being Going Like Thing

McDonald's is good for me.

Good Me McDonald

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

Knowledge Past World Country Out

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

People Me Think Country Sometimes

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

Mother Loved Her Like

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Ripple Urban Effect Communities

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Life Imagination People Brave Face

I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.

Music People Me Think Say Kind

Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.

Responsibility Decision Sickness Now

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

Thought Someone Atlanta Never Cover

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