"But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world."

-- John Thorn

#Dream Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Hero Quotes

“Never forget those who believed in you. They are why you are where you are.”
“I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.”
“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.”
“What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.”
“I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.”
“Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.”
“The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.
“When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.”

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