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Jed S. Rakoff Quotes

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1943

Topics

Talent Baseball Individual Things

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Path People Think Admire Repeat Guy

When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.

Work Support Customer Comfort Young

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

Fun Craft Well Improvise Knows He

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

Time Prosperity More Faster Simpler

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jeanette Winterson

Work Time Day Go Anything Get

My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I'm ready to fight and take it to the next level.

Stress Fight Better Getting Better

Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.

Great Excellence India Rural Being

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

Live Money Childhood Happy Growing

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

Positive Disappointment You Never

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Josephine Baker

Fear Eyes Man City Me Better

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

Live Think You Way Something Get

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change Great Food Simple Wrong

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