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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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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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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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.
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It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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I say a lot of things I don’t mean.
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Love's tongue is in his eyes.
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Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
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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.
