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People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything. ↗

— Eric Davis

#ask #ball #bat #coaches #everything

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ↗

— Mark Twain

#assault #laughter #nothing #stand

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#because #deep #deep down #divorced #down

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't. ↗

— Antonio Davis

#given #going #haven #i #look

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. ↗

— Dave Barry

#although #around #cannot #course #everywhere

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#go #lives #nobody #people #such

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#express #i #needed #probably #share

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#free #thousands #traders #were #who

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ↗

— Mark Twain

#accomplished #basically #claim #crowded #first