Rafael Palmeiro Quotes

You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

Rafael Palmeiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: September 24, 1964

Topics

WorkGoalsPushEnoughYearYou

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

Jerry Hall

LifeEnjoy LifeThinkWorryEnjoy

Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

Mel Gibson

ChangePersonalityPainPeopleMe

If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.

Matt Smith

DayTeaStartSomeoneYouWant

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

Amitava Kumar

FreedomFreeAuthenticityNeverAct

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

Trudie Styler

WorkLoveTimeBadActingComing

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

Shonda Rhimes

TimeMyselfThinkThoughtAnything

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Rob Walton

BusinessPowerMoneyControlRules

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Robert Adams

LifePoliticsPoliticalTalkingYou

I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

Martin Rees

TechnologyScienceI AmSupportWill

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

Michael Stipe

DeathSickRoadYearTen YearsOut

During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times.

Mitt Romney

TogetherGovernmentDownCongress

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

SupportDemocracyDesignToolsData

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