James Patrick Murray Quotes
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
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Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
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One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
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Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
