Wonderful Quotes - Page 38

• There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, Heart

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

  Lee Meriwether

  Way, Roles, Schedules

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• Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

  Leonard Maltin

  Today, Television, Classic

  "In The Money" with Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.

  Mindy McCready

  Princess, Men, Roger

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• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

  Natalie Merchant

  Able, Moments, I Can

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• I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

  Roddy McDowall

  Children, Unhappy, Actors

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• There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Thinking, Cells

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• I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

  Victoria Moran

  Perfect, Eating, Plant

  "The Vibrant Vegan Life of an Obesity Survivor" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Beautiful, Home, Nightlife

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• To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

  Richard O'Brien

  Play, Intellectual, Roles

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  Tea Obreht

  Encouragement, Taken, Thinking

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• Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

  Louise Penny

  Jealous, Writing, Self

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• As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

  Joshua Slocum

  Sea, Ships, Firsts

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.226, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Betrayal, Sleep

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

  Dan Quayle

  Magic, Politics, Aids

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• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  Abbey Lincoln

  People, Looks, Cabinets

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• If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

  Brian Littrell

  Baby, Boys, Eight

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• I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Children, Thinking

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• Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Running, Successful, Forever

  "Aubrey O'Day 'would never say no' to Danity Kane reunion" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 24, 2009.

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• I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

  Amanda Plummer

  Lying, Skins, Cameras

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

  Vincent Piazza

  Writing, Two, Historical

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• Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Kids, Mouths, Sometimes

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• My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Choices, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Mentor

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

  Regis Philbin

  Morning, Crazy, Mean

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