"I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out."

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Source : "We Play ''Would You Rather" With Joe Mauer". Interview with Rafi Kohan, www.gq.com. March 21, 2011.

Joe Mauer

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“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.”
“The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.”
“Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion”
“Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!”
“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.”
“Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.”
“I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying”

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