Jim Leyland Quotes
I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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There's a lot you can do without words.
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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
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'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
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I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
