Halls Quotes - Page 39

• I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  Zubin Mehta

  Cities, Quality, Three

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• I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

  Paul McCartney

  Black, Bags, Kind

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• The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Problem, Probability

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

  Kirsten Nelson

  Growing Up, Couple, Carnegie

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• The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

  John Tesh

  Running, Dream, Simple

  John Tesh (2012). “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Kids, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.

  J. D. Pardo

  Song, School, Busting Out

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• “Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

  Mark Steyn

  Monday, Iran, Ems

  "Keeping You Safe". www.nationalreview.com. February 20, 2010.

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• We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

  Paul Stanley

  Kissing, Rocks, Musical

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• I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

  Demetri Martin

  Practice, House, Wish

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• Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

  Don Yaeger

  Running, Stars, Opportunity

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• In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Real, Reflection, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Dec 12, 2016

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• In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.

  Victor Borge

  Dream, Heaven, Masters

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• When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

  Michael Franti

  Jamaica, Tourists, Bob

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• Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Air, Soul, Vampire

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• Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

  Bruce Sutter

  Mind, Fame, Pitcher

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• He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

  Daley Thompson

  Athlete, Games, Dining

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, People, Musician

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• I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.

  Otto Graham

  Football, Smart, Mistake

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• Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

  Douglas Wilder

  War, Rights, Doors

  "Obama or Clinton better for blacks?" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

  Kenny Rogers

  Baby, Forever, Fame

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• If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

  Tim Walberg

  School, United States, Boards

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