Bill James Quotes
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?Bill James
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie -
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
Katee Sackhoff -
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
Adam Green
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman -
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett -
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
Bebe Rexha -
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
Carl Paladino -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack Obama -
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
Carl Yastrzemski -
I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
Cara Delevingne -
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel -
My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
Eddie Trunk
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
Gareth Bale -
I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
Matt Bomer -
On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
Jay Inslee -
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
Peter Carey -
If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
Jay Alan Sekulow -
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
Bill James