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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Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.
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I'm a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.
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I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
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People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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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.
