Billy Beane Quotes
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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We should all love animals.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
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Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.
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The mercantile business did not suit me.
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I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
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More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
