Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes
The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
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The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
