Jim Evans Quotes
Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
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We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.
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Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
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I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.
