Umpires Quotes - Page 6

• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Goal, Car, Ambitious

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• My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

  Jack Abbott

  Eye, Brain, Routes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Bela Lugosi

  People, Hell, Cures

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• I'm a little too belligerent. I cuss and swear at people. I yell at umpires and maybe I'm a little to tough at home sometimes. I don't sign as many autographs as I should and I haven't always been that good with writers.

  Thurman Munson

  Home, Yankees, People

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• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Army

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

  Larry David

  Casual, Walks, Emmys

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". "The Laugh Factory Magazine" Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Men, Beard

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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Judging, May

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• I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

  Chris Christie

  Arbitration, Reform, Guarantees

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Justice, Criminals

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Levels, Incompetence

  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969)

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• Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Progress, Arbitration, Conflict

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• I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Secret, Vision

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

  Andy Roddick

  School, Kids, Ends

  "The Joy of Six: tennis tantrums" by Jacob Steinberg, Daniel Harris, Gregg Bakowski and Michael Butler, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, Ignorant, Religion

  Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

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• What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Issues, Justice

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 2, 1943.

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• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Careers, Vip, Want

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  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Doors, Justice

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

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• Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Two, People

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• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Mistake, Errors, Attributes

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Roots, Other Cultures

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Judging, Decision, Lost

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• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Winning, Design, Competition

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• Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

  John Irving

  Surfing, Novelists, Damn

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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• To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Literature, Glory

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

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