Billy Butler Quotes

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.

Billy Butler

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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

John C. Hawkes

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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

GreatWantBecomeLittleFortune

We just can't scare our kids by living in fear.

John Ross Bowie

FearLivingJustKidsOurScare

Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.

Stan Van Gundy

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Usually, when I liked athletes growing up, it was because they could hit a ball very far or they can throw a ball very fast. They can shoot a jumper, or they can dunk the ball.

Robbie Lawler

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We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

Robin Day

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The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport

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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Chetan Bhagat

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My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

Chris Hayes

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The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

Cheo Hodari Coker

ManAngryLosingBlackYouLose

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Craig Bruce

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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Arthur Erickson

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