Billy Beane Quotes
Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I bat righty.
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One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
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I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!
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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
