Billy Evans Quotes
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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You cannot schedule death.
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The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
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The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.
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Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.
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People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
