Gene Logsdon Quotes
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
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I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
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I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.
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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
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The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
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In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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Not everybody's a baseball fan.
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I am passionate about spreading awareness about Sri Lankan food.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
