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Bill Veeck Quotes

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

Bill Veeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1914 - January 2, 1986

Topics

Myself Say Will Up Answer Seen

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

Jessi Klein

Work History Art College Comedy Go

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

Jeremy Irons

Money Wife Free You Ask Tell

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

Andy Grammer

Life Work Good Live Truth Me

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael J. Fox

Value Possibilities Everything See

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

Humor American Salt Intellectual Wit

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Srikumar Rao

Live Happy Be Happy You Will Order

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

Mindy Kaling

Girl Effort Parents Me Believe You

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

Derrick Rose

Sugar Poison Got Mine Everybody

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.

Chris Pratt

Comedy You Fall Way See Coming

You gotta understand, there are two different kinds of Asians - the kind who are good at school, obey their parents, go to college - that kind of stuff. And then you have my family - me, my brother, all of my cousins - we're just wretched people.

Bobby Lee

Family Good School Brother Parents

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Antonya Nelson

Want Earn Capacity Reader Moved

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Diamonds Impact Over Years Industry