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.
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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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
Dan Colen
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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
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
Jack Markell
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I think I'm a million different faces.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
Natalie Merchant
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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?
Tate Donovan
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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.
Ville Valo HIM
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
Albert Einstein
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy
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An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto Eco
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The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Epictetus
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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.
Red Barber