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Billy Beane Quotes

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

Billy Beane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1962

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Path Chance Insurance Create Try

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

Jim Irsay

Relationship Humble Personal Afraid

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

Jillian Bach

Good Great Me Dream Done Kind

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

Steve Burns

New York City Me Mom Calm Woods

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick

Learning Fear Children Mistake Think

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

Trisha Yearwood

Life You Back Go Platinum Deal

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

Tom Stoppard

Loved Rock Always Roll Rock N Roll

There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

Roy Clark

World Enough Long You Said Catch

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Joyce Carol Oates

Love Good Morning Breakfast Writing

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

Brett Favre

Time Wife Me Golf Too Much Play

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

Ari Graynor

Fun Fat Pretty Being Rough Made

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Anthony Davis

Want Hard Always Out Fit Tried

I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.

Austin Stowell

Hope People Thought Friends Nice