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Ted Lyons Quotes

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

Ted Lyons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1900 - July 25, 1986

Topics

Home Day Tired Waiting Fly Down

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

Joe Perry

Time Together Start Thinking Thought

What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.

Melonie Diaz

Family Baseball Blue Team Law More

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

Matt LeBlanc

Tomorrow Me Dark Acting Nails Out

One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Confidence Hope Losing Doing Lose

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

Rob Halford

Love Lost Kind Get Gothic Escapism

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

Art Why Always Abstract Artists

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot

Politics Man River Dirty Up Who

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

Mohnish Pabrai

Good People Road Think I Can Map

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Lucy Dacus

Myself People Think Negativity Back

I am careful with what I eat because that's my job. If I had to plump up for a role, I would do it.

Dilshad Vadsaria

Job I Am Eat Up Because Role

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

Christie Hefner

Think Brand Always Been Changed

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

Chris Pavone

Time Writing Book Text About Spend