Bill James Quotes
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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My health is fine.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
