Bill Veeck Quotes
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.
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In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
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Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
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What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
