Billy Beane Quotes
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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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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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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 think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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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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Acting is all about relating to the people on stage with you, even in plays that break the fourth wall. Clowning, for the most part, is the opposite. If somebody in the audience sneezes, I can count on it: I don't even have to look at Shiner; he'll have his handkerchief out. It's all about all of us in the room together.
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When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
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Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.
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Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
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We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.