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
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• 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

• 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
  • Iran
  • West

• 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

• I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
  • Live
  • True
  • Words

• What I've learned is that love is made up of three ingredients: consideration, spontaneity, and [whispers] oral sex for guys and women.

  

  Damien Lemon
  • Learned
  • Consideration
  • Ingredients

• What fire does not destroy, it hardens.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fire
  • Destroy
  • Hardens

• The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Listening

• The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

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

  

  Bill James