Brad Williams Quotes
If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
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The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
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I'm an utterly average, total geek.
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Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
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You can't win by being more average than average.
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Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, where the dinner table is the best place to find out.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
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I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they'll turn around and say, 'Wow, that's great.'
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.
