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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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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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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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We just here to do our job.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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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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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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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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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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It is certainly not news that the president is making mistakes; that he's been intemperate. I think what shouldn't be lost on the American people is that his first tweet around tapes was essentially designed to intimidate James Comey.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
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There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
