Alison Goodman Quotes
History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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For the most part, I don't think I'm any different than anybody else.
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When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!'
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Bayes’s Rule tells us that when it comes to making predictions based on limited evidence, few things are as important as having good priors—that is, a sense of the distribution from which we expect that evidence to have come. Good predictions thus begin with having good instincts about when we’re dealing with a normal distribution and when with a power-law distribution. As it turns out, Bayes’s Rule offers us a simple but dramatically different predictive rule of thumb for each.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”
