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Michael Lewis Quotes

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 15, 1960

Topics

Baseball Red Enough Play Hard Being

It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.

Myself Plant Connection Band Synergy

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

Happy People Me Voice Push Seeing

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Think Trouble Follow Audience Plot

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Best View You Place Jail Compliance

People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.

Talent People Me You Say She

I've always been a voracious reader.

Always Been Reader Voracious

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.

Stephane Hessel

Life Mother Happy Me Be Happy You

I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one.

Stephanie Sigman

Love Good Romantic Comedy Would

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

You Blood True Comfortable Stage

My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.

Failure Forget Up Get Just Again

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Support Borders Economy Within Own

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Change Truth People Truth Is Think

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