"Hereâ€™s the thing about baseball-itâ€™s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batterâ€™s box like a soldier and itâ€™s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But hereâ€™s the thing I didnâ€™t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home runâ€¦ Someone else has to pitch the ball."

-- Barry Lyga

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“I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.”

Source : "AGENT ORANGE: Jason Statham Interview Part II: JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS of MARS". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 28, 2001.
“When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that bad? What is the situation? I remember the night before I left for my trip, I called my mom and said, "I'm going to Afghanistan tomorrow."”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I'm not not drinking.”
“The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.”
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
“It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”

Source : Attributed to Chester Bernard in "Hypothesis-based research" by Richard A. Brand in Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 28.2, (pp. 71-73), 1998.
“Girls don’t really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.”

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