Bill James Quotes
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Bill James
Quotes to Explore
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin
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I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
Dane Cook
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
Hampton Sides
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
Jack Horner
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
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I’m old enough to feel the way I do. And I know that you are true, it’s just a part of my genes.
Pete Yorn
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
Albert Cossery
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
Stanley Kubrick
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Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.
Jan Brewer
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
Bella Thorne
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Bill James
