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Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. -- Mickey Mantle
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story. -- Naguib Mahfouz
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. -- Laurie Anderson
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -- Babe Ruth
It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule. -- Francis Crick
I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases? -- Jose Saramago
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. -- Mickey Mantle
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back. -- Ryne Sandberg
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. -- Willie Mays
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. -- Francis Crick
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. -- Francis Crick
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess. -- Kyra Sedgwick
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. -- Miguel de Icaza
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. -- Paul de Man
The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them. -- Jane D. Hull
How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons. -- Francis Crick
The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially. -- Toshihiko Fukui
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life. -- Corin Nemec
And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else. -- Carlton Fisk
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground -- Noah Webster
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star. -- Victoria Jackson
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built. -- King Hussein I
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. -- Julian Assange
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate. -- Rickey Henderson
I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. -- Muqtada al Sadr
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. -- William McDonough
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories. -- Dierks Bentley
The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. -- Noam Chomsky
I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases. -- Olivia Newton-John
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea. -- Ron Paul
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook. -- Lou Brock
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. -- Douglas Coupland
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. -- Dan Brown
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks. -- Aimee Mullins
I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence. -- Salma Hayek
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered. -- Nate Berkus
I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things. -- Kapil Sharma
Fleets cannot operate without bases. -- John A. Lejeune
I really like visiting military bases. -- Stacy Keibler
I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded. -- Earl Weaver
No happy man bases his decisions on fear. -- Jake Anderson
As I remember it, the bases were loaded. -- Garry Maddox
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. -- Ang Lee
I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to. -- Lou Brock
Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too. -- Tony Gwynn
Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases. -- Babe Ruth
It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases. -- Cynthia McKinney
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder. -- Carl Crawford
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts -- John Warren Kindt
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. -- Red Smith
A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded. -- Ken Singleton
Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor? -- Jesse Ventura
The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases. -- Evo Morales
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music. -- John Legend
Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases. -- Fernand Point
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq." -- Peter DeFazio
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. -- John Updike
Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. -- Dwight Gooden
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive. -- Jimmy Rollins
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game. -- Jim Brosnan
As it stands, our patrols and bases are just targets, and the more firepower we use, the more enemies we make. -- Daniel Suarez
I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like. -- Ariel Pink
When I am king, I will revise the sexual bases system so that getting to first base will include oral sex and sodomy! -- Adam Carolla
Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that. -- Richard Carrier
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. -- Jean Monnet
In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.... -- Dylan Thomas
He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop. -- Mickey Mantle
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing. -- Bill James
There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art. -- Walter J. Phillips
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases... -- Casey Stengel
I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy. -- Simon Baker
Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples. -- Carl Crawford
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases. -- Susan Orlean
Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else. -- Carl Crawford
When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind. -- Tug McGraw
My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes. -- Brian K. Vaughan
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean. -- Holland Smith
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours. -- Charles Duke
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other. -- Bashar al-Assad
We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web. -- DJ Spooky
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. -- Rob Simmons
I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day. -- Cool Papa Bell
Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve. -- Rube Foster
I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets. -- Steve Ballmer
To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war. -- Giulio Douhet
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. -- Branch Rickey
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can. -- Carlos Beltran
I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it. -- Art Wolfe
When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference. -- Jacque Fresco
You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas. -- Bashar al-Assad
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate. -- Hannah Arendt
We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe. -- Leonid Brezhnev
Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese. -- Noam Chomsky
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire. -- Langston Hughes
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. -- Richard Engel
Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen. -- Drake
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often. -- Derek Sivers
Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency. -- Andreas Antonopoulos
I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries. -- David Petraeus
Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases? -- Yasser Arafat
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious. -- Wilhelm Wundt
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military. -- Steve Earle

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