Billy Beane Quotes
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.Billy Beane
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
Tamara Mellon -
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian -
I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
Taron Egerton -
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
Babasaheb -
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
Sam Kinison -
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Umberto Eco -
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry -
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts -
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount -
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor Swift
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
Damien Chazelle -
I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
Venus Williams -
I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
Patricia Millett -
There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
Laura Dern -
Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
J. K. Simmons -
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
Dennis Banks -
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann -
I am trying every genre.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
Billy Beane