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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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.
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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
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The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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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.
