#abe

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#babe #babe ruth #been #business #care

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ago #always #believed #everyone #gotten

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ↗

— Stendhal

#age #boredom #cure #curse #even

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#child #concrete #consequences #disability #example

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. ↗

— Angie Stone

#always #bad #bad habits #busy #develop

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#could #i #instead #label #my own

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#label #range #tremendous

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clean #dirt #humor #isabelle-lightwood

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#babe ruth #great #i #just #lucky

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#dropped #i #label #major #major label