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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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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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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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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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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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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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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Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.
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A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
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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.
