Bill James Quotes

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

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• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Man
  • Thoroughly
  • Godless

• In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Sick

• I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Player
  • Singing

• My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Father
  • Football
  • Loved

• It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Power

• My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Wind

• I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • Disney audience

• Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • Men
  • May

• I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Work
  • Party
  • Winning

• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

  

  Bill James
  • Winning