Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with kilim rugs and fertility sculptures. The white stucco in front of her looked only slightly more substantial than a roadside weigh station.


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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my wh...
JACOB DEGROM
When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
JACOB DEGROM
I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to ...
JACOB DEGROM
I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. I...
JACOB DEGROM
My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.
JACOB DEGROM
I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a...
JACOB DEGROM
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportu...
JACOB DEGROM
I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions...
JACOB DEGROM
Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, w...
JACOB DEGROM
I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
JACOB DEGROM
Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch ...
JACOB DEGROM
I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you&...
JACOB DEGROM
I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So tr...
JACOB DEGROM
You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know w...
JACOB DEGROM
Look good, feel good, play good.
JACOB DEGROM
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics beca...
JACOB DALTON
I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to m...
JACOB DALTON
I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
JACOB DALTON
I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basica...
JACOB DALTON
Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I d...
JACOB DALTON
My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ...
JACOB DALTON
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
JACOB DALTON
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking ple...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when t...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because sc...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He ...
JACOB BATALON
New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
JACOB BATALON
Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make...
JACOB BATALON
I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool h...
JACOB BATALON
I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
JACOB BATALON
I didn't really enjoy school in general.
JACOB BATALON
Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for ...
JACOB BATALON
Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act...
JACOB BATALON
I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's re...
JACOB BATALON
The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and t...
JACOB BATALON
I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely,...
JACOB BATALON
God has definitely been good to me.
JACOB BATALON
Music was sort of my thing at first.
JACOB BATALON
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
JACOB BATALON
When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the t...
JACOB BATALON
I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not...
JACOB BATALON
People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an ho...
JACOB BATALON
Power is the by-product of understanding.
JACOB BRONOWSKI