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KAREN HOWARD As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. ROB ZOMBIE He seems like the real deal, man. I was really impressed with the guy. We were hoping with him being... KAILEE WONG There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds. CARINE ROITFELD Everybody could use Billy Wagner, ... There's not one team that could not use a guy like Billy Wagne... BRAD LIDGE You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is the... ALBERT BROOKS So, your idea of a good night is to go to bed early with a book and a milky drink, is it? What kind ... KATE MOSS There are not too many 22 year olds out there that have ever thrown that many innings in a year. At ... CHRIS CRON Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time... DEYTH BANGER As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came ... DUANER SANCHEZ Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER We need to encourage new believers to feed on God’s Word—it is nourishment for the soul. BILLY GRAHAM It was unexpected. We did not feel that there was going to be any kind of problem this year with a s... COLLEEN JONES Obviously, some of the names I'm up there with are great pitchers, ... Billy Wagner is a guy I striv... BRAD LIDGE Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you c... LANA WACHOWSKI Last year we were kind of in awe of playing down there. This time we're going down there to win a ga... BENJIE WOOD The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. BILLY BEANE We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us b... BILLY BEANE I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. ... BILLY BEANE We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insu... BILLY BEANE In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the... BILLY BEANE I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I ... BILLY BEANE At this point, both sides have agreed to pursue other options. We were just too far apart. I don't t... BILLY BEANE It was Ken, ... He called. I think it was probably not an easy phone call for him to make. BILLY BEANE It took a lot for him to pick up the phone, unsolicited. That was probably not an easy phone call fo... BILLY BEANE Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere, BILLY BEANE Who knows how the rest of baseball views you? ... I can go home and sleep and know that we used trem... BILLY BEANE Almost like a car salesman, if a guy walks onto the lot and a salesman qualifies him on how he is dr... BILLY BEANE The details really weren't that big of a deal from a contractual standpoint. Just a couple of minor ... BILLY BEANE If you bring in a lefty to face Eric (a left-handed hitter), and then he has to face Frank Thomas ri... BILLY BEANE It's like having calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off, but by secon... BILLY BEANE It's something we didn't know about, but he came forward with the information, so I commend him for ... BILLY BEANE I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball... BILLY BEANE I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests ... BILLY BEANE If there is any player who you couldn't be happier for signing a guaranteed multiyear contract, it's... BILLY BEANE The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. T... BILLY BEANE I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been ... BILLY BEANE (Macha) did a fine job. We obviously had significant player turnover and injuries. The end result wa... BILLY BEANE You could probably get carried away with superlatives when it comes to Frank Thomas. He's arguably o... BILLY BEANE It's best to part ways at this point, ... We were never going to be able to bridge the gap. BILLY BEANE We were never going to bridge the gap. BILLY BEANE I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanfo... BILLY BEANE I had a nice little conversation with him. He seems happy to be here, quick to smile. BILLY BEANE Deals are always ongoing things. So now, in that respect, Brad is part of the deal. But I'm not the ... BILLY BEANE Serendipity. Danny just does everything well. Over time, he's going to impress you. BILLY BEANE I know we didn't get to see the real Dan Meyer. He says he feels great now, and he could be a real s... BILLY BEANE Both (Williams and Thomas) are highly competitive, highly successful people. It's temporary noise. BILLY BEANE That'll be a real shot in the arm for us. BILLY BEANE He's happy to be here. And he's quick to smile. BILLY BEANE Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they'v... BILLY BEANE But we've always been obsessed in Oakland with not being the cute small-market story that came and w... BILLY BEANE The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means. BILLY BEANE The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you p... BILLY BEANE Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States t... BILLY BEANE Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hou... BILLY BEANE Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with... BILLY BEANE Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud. BILLY BEANE Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job... BILLY BEANE When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it i... BILLY BEANE We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose. BILLY BEANE I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love drivin... BILLY BEANE This is a crucial year for me, to show people that I can still get it done. As a young guy, when som... DERRICK FROST I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the... STEPHEN MERCHANT There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone w... ADAM LAMBERT It is Billy. We've met. We had a consensus. We've offered it to Billy. He's accepted, and we're goin... ALLEN WARD Cameron wanted that Jack Lemmon quality for Drew, ... That kind of crazed, quirky physical comedy an... ORLANDO BLOOM The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo... WILLIAM WYLER I?m really kind of oblivious to it. I think the players are, too. I just think these kinds of streak... DOUG BRUNO This is a time for all of us to do as much as we can to help the courageous survivors of this unimag... KATHY IRELAND The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or a... NEIL GAIMAN You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playin... SHANNON L. ALDER And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until... SARA BARNARD It all starts offensively with Billy. He has had a tremendous career at Holy Cross. This fall he rea... ADAM PASCAL I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a... STEVE HUTCHINSON All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two op... AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not eve... CYNTHIA BREAZEAL I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, an... 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That means I don't have to be nice anymore. BILLY IDOL Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone. BILLY JOEL Only those who want everything done for them are bored. BILLY GRAHAM America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we... BILLY GRAHAM The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ... BILLY GRAHAM No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross... BILLY GRAHAM Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ... BILLY GRAHAM God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. BILLY GRAHAM One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv... BILLY COLLINS Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game. BILLY MARTIN I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi... BILLY CONNELLY America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr... BILLY GRAHAM Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. BILLY GRAHAM The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. BILLY JOEL I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. BILLY GRAHAM God has a big eraser. BILLY ZEOLI I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. BILLY CRYSTAL I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. BILLY JOEL Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. BILLY ROSE A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. BILLY JOEL Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor... BILLY GRAHAM Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. BILLY GRAHAM Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they... BILLY GRAHAM Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. BILLY WILDER You look marvelous. BILLY CRYSTAL An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ... BILLY WILDER I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. BILLY WILDER They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat... BILLY JOEL There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than... BILLY JOEL Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. BILLY CRYSTAL I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I... BILLY CORGAN I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. BILLY JOEL What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ... BILLY CORGAN