"When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball."

-- Tris Speaker

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“When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.”

Source : "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.
“Health makes good propaganda.”
“If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!”
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century
“Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.”
“I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.
“Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”
“Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.”

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