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.Jacob Ruppert
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Kate Thompson -
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo -
Explosions are not comfortable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison -
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!
Yami Gautam
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
Ed Markey -
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny -
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade -
At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
Gary Johnson -
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.
Adam Osborne -
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Aasif Mandvi -
I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
Fleur East -
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek -
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.
Karl Urban -
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
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I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.
Mark Kurlansky -
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
Janet Yellen -
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.
Primo Levi -
When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.
Jason Statham -
Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.
Louise Rennison -
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.
Jacob Ruppert