Bill Veeck Quotes
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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He's been real consistent with his play since we started back this year, ... He's been confident and sure. ... What I'm looking towards is somebody to really establish themselves as a quarterback, take over and take off with the football team.
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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
