Billy Beane Quotes
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.
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The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.
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It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.
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I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a really hard time getting elected because of my views. L.A. is very ethnic. Many of the Jewish voters would not support me because of my views on the Middle East.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
