"It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations."

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Source : Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

Vida Blue

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“Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.”
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”
“I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity.”

Source : "Jesus Camp". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“when something is right, it will feel easier and much more effortless”
“We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.”
“Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.”
“This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.”
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

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