Bill James Quotes - Page 2

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• Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

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  Medicine, Miracle, Aspirin

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• Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

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  Stress, Proud, Kind

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• (Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

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  Baseball, Player, Years

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• Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

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  People, Trying, Stories

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• Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

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  Law, Stories, Crime

  "Writer Bill James". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

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  Sports, Children, Athlete

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• You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

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  Baseball, Mean, Thinking

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• Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

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  Men, Different, Doing Me

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

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  Emotional, Stories, Tolls

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• Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

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  Real, Television, Violence

  "Writer Bill James". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

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  Important, Details, Stories

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• There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

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  Believe, I Believe, Murder

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• There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

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  Jobs, Talking, Shoes

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• We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

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  Book, Needs, Genius

  Bill James (2011). “Solid Fool's Gold”, p.138, ACTA Publications

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• When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

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  Kids, Grew Up, Newspapers

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• On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

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  Crazy, Hands, Issues

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

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  Writing, This Generation, Generations

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• You're just too poor to get rich.

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  Rich, Poor, Get Rich

  "Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions". Freakonomics interview, freakonomics.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

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  People, Personality, Hatred

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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  Airplane, People, Computer

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• It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

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  Long, Facts, Theory

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• I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

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  Sports, Littles, Little Things

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• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

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  Growing Up, Believe, People

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• All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

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  Brother, Stories, Slavery

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

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  Crime, Cases, Figures

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