"I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard."

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Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

R.A. Dickey

#Sports Quotes #Pain Quotes #Real Quotes

“I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe in marriage and fidelity.”
“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.”
“The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.”
“People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what I try to do with Princess Superstar. Why should a musician be limited to only one form or one genre of music? And so, I think the same will hold true for the whole male/female categorization.”
“But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.”
“The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.”

Source : "Bad News Baer". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. July 5, 2006.
“There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.”

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