Bill James Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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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.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.
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You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.
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You dream love like it’s some shitty little motel - you check in and you check out like hell. Well, in case you couldn’t tell I ain’t your old guitar that you leave out in the back of your car that you never play, but you say that you’re gonna play…
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.