"You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball."
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"I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free."
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"Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen."
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"Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to."
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"Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank."
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"I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain."
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"There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up.""
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"I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball."
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"My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it."
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"You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England"
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"Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question"
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"Did you think you could dump me, and I'd bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I'm not a Ping-Pong ball. You can't just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me?"
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"There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters."
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"It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else."
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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball"
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"WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD."
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"Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb."
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"In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world."
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"Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit."
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"Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball."
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