"Its a real honor to be included among the list of finalists, when you see the names that are there, ... Some of the guys who won the Hank Aaron Award in the past are thought of as some of the best players in the history of the game, so just to be included with those guys is really gratifying."

-- Mark Teixeira

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“A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.”

Source : Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”
“To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.”
“Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.”

Source : "Rock On". Album: Rock On, 1973.
“Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.”
“I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.”
“When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! - the world and all of it's characters need to be created. There is no story/plot - all you have is a blank sheet of paper.”
“I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.”

Source : "Patrick Soon-Shiong on Giving and Getting by in Los Angeles". Interview with Gabriel Kahn, www.lamag.com. April 18, 2013.
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”

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