Reggie Jackson (Reginald Martinez Jackson) Quotes
I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
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Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
