Jack Brickhouse Quotes
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic it would have to be a very unorthodox one, as I just don't believe all of the teachings of the Church. But on the other hand, I'm an educated man because the Catholic Church educated me. It gave me something that is really important to me. So I always think about my faith. I always have it, and sometimes I can't talk about it, and sometimes I can. I am like an adolescent in that way. Teens are asking questions: who is God and what does it mean to have faith?
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It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
