John Thorn Quotes
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
