Rafael Palmeiro Quotes
You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
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You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.