Jason Mitchell Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
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The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket's right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or $120, or $150 million per launch. And those are all expendable. That is, you've got to buy a new rocket for each launch. So, that really is the critical part. If there was some kind of really, a revolutionary breakthrough and the price of rockets fell by an order of magnitude, I mean, just imagine what that would do as far as getting access to more ordinary people.
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I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.
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I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.
