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"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."
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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."
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"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
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"A car for every purse and purpose."
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"But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?"
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"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
Baseball
"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."
Time
"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
Time
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing."
Car
"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act."
People
"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."
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