Bill James Quotes

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Working

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Will
  • Parliament
  • Disobey

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Copy

• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Nothing
  • Common Sense

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • System
  • Socialism

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Media

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Opportunity
  • Realize
  • Top

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Problems
  • Tell
  • I Make

• Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

  

  Arthur Cayley
  • Long
  • Experience
  • True

• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it all in at once.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • World

• There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

  

  Bill James
  • Believe
  • True