Buck Martinez (John Albert) Quotes
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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We just here to do our job.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.
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The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
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I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
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There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
