Branch Rickey Quotes
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.
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Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'
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I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.
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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
