I leaned over and said, 'sorry about that,' but Lennon didn't even move and said it was all right. I said, 'you know we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys, The Beatles,' and he said, 'Everything we got, we stole from Chuck Berry.' And that was my first brush with The Beatles.
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We had some fans claim that they can get a cheaper rate during the State Fair than during state basketball. (CHSAA) thought the problem had been taken care of; then I went to an outreach meeting with some of the small outlying schools and they asked about it again.
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He's going to remain steadfast in his determination to simply ensure a nominee who holds the greatest promise of filling the very large shoes of the man who has just passed. I don't think he'll confine himself to any candidate of a particular race or gender.
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Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humour left.
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People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
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He's a baseball player - outstanding instincts on the field, good makeup, a hard-nosed player, always has been, versatility. [He's] a better left-handed hitter than right, and that fits us, especially with Damian [Rolls] at third base. He's just a good, solid performer.
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A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
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There's only one customer that should be at the table, and that's the American people. The American people should be the number one and only client of the FDA, and that's purely for safety of drugs.
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you… People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren’t telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
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Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
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Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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The things I remember more about Chuck as a player were the leadership qualities he had. He was a very strong leader of our football team, and a very tough player. People on the outside may not appreciate it as much, but you see a guy who's having a hard time walking certain weeks, and then he'd go out and play. And that was a big part of the reason we were so successful during that period.
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A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.
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She has important reasons to leave the court, and I think it would be a step too far to ask her to make that sacrifice.
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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
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What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
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Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
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I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is.
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
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Violence is my last option.
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That just broke our hearts. It broke our spirits and we've got to regroup.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
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We expect going forward the relationship will be the same.
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There will be no decisions made tonight regarding this.
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