Billy Beane Quotes
I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
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Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done - many people describe that as 'reasonable' - I couldn't vote for John Boehner's re-elect.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
