Jacob Ruppert Quotes
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.
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People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
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I personally view as very important such ideas as people’s aspiration for perfection and unification, since only a peaceful competition forms the noble basis for the Olympic movement. This is as relevant as ever in the modern world, which opens unlimited opportunities for people, but at the same time is being torn by conflicts, contradictions and standoffs. However, I am an optimist and I strongly believe in the bright future of the international Olympic movement.
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Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.
