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The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#more #players #realize #than #thing

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #art

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#being #career #center #change #changed

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#bill #doctor #gave #i #live

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#twists #humor

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#democrats #give #happen #hard #himself

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#august #been #college #every #flash

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#bugs #count #digital #find #go

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#active #always #department #fantasized #great

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#dance #i #literally #most #numbers