Bill James Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
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New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
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I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
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I love working with my friends.
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There is no point mucking around and saying we are just going to have one or two shops and that's it... we are going to reach, you know, 40 shops around the world. I want 150 shops in China.
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Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.
