Don Yaeger Quotes
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.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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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.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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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.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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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.'
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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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.
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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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.
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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.
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.
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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.
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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.
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There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.
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I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.
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Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.
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Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
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Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.
