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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

[A's G.M. Billy Beane is suitably impressed by Mariners phenom Felix Hernandez.] There aren't too ma...
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 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

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupi...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on c...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desper...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodge...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I have very important phone messages that will be playing Broadway. An evening of my tweets I think ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I think it's a very ephemeral thing, what makes a show a success.
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderf...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I ...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you ...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him i...
BILLY SUNDAY

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
BILLY CORGAN

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is...
BILLY GRAHAM

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
BILLY GRAHAM

The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS I'm not a bro.
BILLY EICHNER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
BILLY GRAHAM

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
BILLY GRAHAM

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
BILLY GRAHAM

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about th...
BILLY GRAHAM

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
BILLY GRAHAM

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. B...
BILLY JOEL I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
BILLY EICHNER

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER

Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy...
BILLY GARDELL

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for yo...
BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.
BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru...
BILLY SHEEHAN

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
BILLY SUNDAY

The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL

The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS

I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
BILLY COLLINS

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

If I need a cause for celebrationOr a comfort I can use to ease my mindI rely on my imaginationAnd I...
BILLY JOEL

[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL

Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL

I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL

Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN

A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN

The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN

Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN

By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN

The best things in life are free- and $19.95.
BILLY MAYS

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobi...
BILLY SUNDAY

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
BILLY GRAHAM

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...
BILLY JOEL

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

I love it when someone insults me. 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

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

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