Bill James Quotes

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

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• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Know
  • Airplane
  • Rebuild

• 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
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• 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
  • American
  • America
  • High

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Happen
  • Evolution

• 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
  • People
  • School
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Born
  • Act

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Women
  • Down

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Shoulders
  • Fifty
  • Above

• I'm marriable. But I'm not married.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Married

• Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Love
  • Moments

• The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • West
  • Iran

• 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!

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Choice
  • Tomorrow

• If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Person
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Wonder

• Support other women! We are taught to be competitive with other women, to vie with them for the 'girl spot' in a group or job. Anything that helps an individual woman is good for all of us! Love and support your friends!

  

  Megan Amram
  • Good
  • Women
  • Job

• I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Kids
  • Summer

• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • Mistakes
  • Soviet Union

• When we got up there in big situations, ... we weren't very good.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Good
  • Situations

• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Talking
  • Europe
  • Waves

• Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

  

  Bill James