Balls Quotes - Page 29

• If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fall, Air, Gigs

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Smell, Dating, Guy

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

  Vance Havner

  Sunday, Games, Church

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• The central attitudes driving the Demand Man are:
  It's your job to do things for me, including taking care of my responsibilities if I drop the ball on them. If I'm unhappy about
  any aspect of my life, whether it has to do with our relationship or not, it's your fault.
  You should not place demands on me at all. You should be grateful for whatever I choose to give.
  I am above criticism.
  I am a very loving and giving partner. You're lucky to have me.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Jobs, Attitude, Grateful

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• The ball is an essential part of the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Games, Essentials

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• If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

  Johan Cruijff

  Play, Possession, Ifs

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• If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.

  Johan Cruijff

  Running, Games, Play

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• A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible.

  Johan Cruijff

  Mistake, Loss, Counter Attack

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• If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.

  James Carville

  Two, Gave Up, Ifs

  "James Carville stands by Obama comment" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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• Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

  Mario Batali

  Bombs, Meat, Chef

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Passion, Government, Names

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• Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

  Marv Albert

  Thug, Lines, Fine

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• I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

  Marv Albert

  Teenager, Boys, Vintage

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• I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Home, Second Chance

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• Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

  Bill Rancic

  Home, Way

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• Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Beach, Buckets, Firsts

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• How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage.

  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

  Sports, Player, Years

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• Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Children, Fall, Order

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.

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• Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out -- either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

  Dave McPherson

  Dream, Player, Tennis

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• Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

  Margery Wilson

  Games, Tennis, Trying

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• It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Goal, Next, Easy

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