Jed S. Rakoff Quotes
In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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I don't want to bore people with stories about being in rock n' roll and being a mother. Other singers do it. I can, too. I just do what I have to do. It's not that hard. It's just different.
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I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
