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" Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. "

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

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There's always someone following your next step.

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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

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Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

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We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

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We inhabit a language rather than a country.

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I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

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I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

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Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

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I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.

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I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

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I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

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The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

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I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

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We went for the best overall feel on each song. There are no musical overdubs at all. It's a true live record; it's one of the few true live records out there.

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But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

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I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

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If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

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Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

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It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.

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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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