Red Barber Quotes
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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I think I'm a million different faces.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
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People easily quit their dream because it's not easy.
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Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
