Bill James Quotes

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

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• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Celebrity

• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Music
  • Book
  • Stars

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Everything
  • Try
  • Now

• I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • People
  • Want
  • Champion

• I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Television
  • Radio

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • She
  • Fashion

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Living
  • Wishes

• A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Stop

• We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

  

  Verite
  • Mind
  • School
  • Kind

• I was quite insistent. We have quite a few pranksters in the lab and I thought this was one of them. I even congratulated the man, ironically, on his Swedish accent.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

• The Jews tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Jesus

• Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Society

• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Model
  • Marry

• After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Power
  • Political
  • Identity

• I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

  

  David Soul
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

  

  Bill James