Mets Quotes - Page 32

• As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

  Michael Behe

  Numbers, Increase, Criteria

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Coffee, Thinking, Tables

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• Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Children, Past, Years

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• I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, People, Racist

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it....maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working... younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff.

  Peter Brotzmann

  Music, Art, Optimistic

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• I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything!

  Zutty Singleton

  Cat, Firsts, Facts

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• No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Depression, Years, Political

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• I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Morning, New York, Party

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Rock Star" by Christopher, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

  Martha Stewart

  Kids, Home, Garden

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• My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

  Tracy Austin

  Mom, Dad, Air

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• Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Mirrors, Giving, Humanity

  Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins

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• If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

  A. J. Jacobs

  Coffee, Self, Guy

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Guru, Amplifiers

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• I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

  Evan Parker

  Years, Europe, Together

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• I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

  David Markson

  Believe, Italian, Looks

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

  Indra Nooyi

  School, College, Television

  "Indra Nooyi on How to Find Your Voice". Interview with Rachel Bowie, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  Haile Selassie

  Mistake, Men, Ideas

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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• Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

  Abebe Bikila

  Men, Victory, Tragedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He interrupted everybody with outbursts of laughter as if he were drunk. But he wasn’t drunk. He was just happy for some mysterious reason, and he was also a genius – the first I had ever met

  Marilyn

  Laughter, Men, Hair

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• I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

  Diana Vreeland

  Believe, Eye, Sight

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

  Barry Goldwater

  Military, Gay, Years

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

  Hollis Frampton

  Angel, Devil, Faces

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• I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Past, Creative

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• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Order, Jesuit

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

  T Bone Burnett

  Views, Different, Point Of View

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