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Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Prize

• Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Political
  • Education

• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hell

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mother
  • Words
  • Universe

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • She
  • Night
  • Better

• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Long
  • Motivational
  • Perseverance

• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • While

• Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

  

  Edie Brickell

• Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.

  

  Mark Dacascos
  • Done
  • Action

• As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • College
  • Journalism
  • Novels

• I try to eat good; I really do. It's really about moderation.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Good

• Determined, dedicated, disciplined. I think he's ready to play. For Kobe, it's about re-establishing his dominance in the game.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Kobe
  • Dominance

• Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

  

  Don Yaeger