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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I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
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School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.
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My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.
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I always say that 'Star Wars' had a huge effect on me, too, but what 'Star Wars' did for some people, 'Superman' did for me.
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
