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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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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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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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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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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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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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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Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.
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Look at Jennifer Aniston: She's America's sweetheart for a reason. You know what she's going to look like when she shows up to something, and there's something so comfortable about that.
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My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.
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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.
