Jimmy Piersall Quotes

#1. There is no better therapy than understanding.

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#2. I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

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#3. I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

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#4. Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

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#5. Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

#6. That's me, by the way, arriving at "prison" - also known as Hills Village Middle School - in

James Patterson

#7. Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

Tristan Bernard

#8. You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

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#9. It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

Gerhard Richter

#10. We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

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#11. Nutrition makes me puke.

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#12. I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

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#13. Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

Madonna

#14. If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

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#15. The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on.

Katy Tackes

#16. The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#17. I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

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#18. If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

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#19. There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

Maya Tiwari

#20. I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

Maisie Williams

#21. I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

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#22. I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

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#23. I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

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