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.
Red Barber
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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.
Maggie Stiefvater
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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.
Kate McKinnon
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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.
Tea Obreht
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
Fantasia Barrino
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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.
Dane Cook
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman
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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.
Dan Pink
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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.
Ira Glass
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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'.
Tamara Tunie
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
Yi So-Yeon
