Billy Beane Quotes

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Think

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Day

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • West
  • Puppet

• You can do more, you can always do more.

  

  Dan Marino
  • You
  • Always
  • More

• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Work
  • Children
  • Together

• Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Wish
  • Language

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Money
  • Getting
  • Mail

• If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Need
  • Week
  • Run

• I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Love
  • Curious

• Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!

  

  Joel Grey
  • Morning
  • Forever
  • Coffee

• One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.

  

  Pierre Niney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.

  

  Peter Milligan
  • Girl

• While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Together

• Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

  

  Billy Beane