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People can be influenced by the wrong people and, for a time, I probably was. But I've really tried to change my ways. It's a daily battle but I'm happy with the man that I am.
People should embrace the fact they're individual.
I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.
People who say spring training's too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it's the perfect length of time.
You do connect with people, regardless of their age. And how do you do that? By taking an interest in what they do, where they're coming from.
When I was living in California, I would ride my bike and see homeless people pushing their grocery carts with all their belongings, and it really upset me. I always said if I had a bigger soapbox, I would do something. And I thought the best way was to cook food - I'm Italian.
Bob Clear, nobody's ever heard about except for some people who have been in the game, was probably my main mentor in the game of baseball.
I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.
If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.
What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.
Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people.
I like streaming music. I'll be in the car going, 'I want to hear Scotty Anderson.' He's a great guitar player not many people know about - maybe me and two other dudes know him. But I love him, and I can pull him up on Apple Music, and there it is, right there in my car.
I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to 'Be all that you can be'... You invest in people. You hold people accountable.
Yes, I'll stand up to the party if they're wrong and they aren't going the right way for people in Pennsylvania. But I do believe in Democratic principles.
It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.
The Democratic Party isn't any good unless they know it's about people!
People don't trust party leaders.
What people in Washington worry about - they forget about the people. They forget the mission.
I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.
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