Jacob Ruppert Quotes

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

Jacob Ruppert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1867 - January 13, 1939

Topics

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The most sincere form of flattery is money.

Jim Cantrell

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We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

John Hickenlooper

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I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

Michael Gambon

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.

Sue Johanson

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We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

Steve Largent

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I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.

Robin Lord Taylor

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I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

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I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Diego Della Valle

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I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

Ashley Madekwe

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Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

Shawn Levy

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thomas Carlyle

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