George Vecsey Quotes

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

George Vecsey

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I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Jesse Ventura

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Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John B. S. Haldane

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Jeff Bezos

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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.

Amor Towles

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I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.

Romelu Lukaku

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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Martin Yan

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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Michael Porter

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I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

Luke Bryan

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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

Johnny Depp

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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

Brian J. White

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