Bill James
Related NICK HORNBY There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.' ALAN COLMES Stay open minded, because if we adapt to our surroundings we will never experience Evolution. LUIS F. GOUVEIA DEYTH BANGER It was huge for James because whoever was winning, it was a huge disadvantage. If you are up a set, ... BRIAN BARKER Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. We were equally, if not better or more magnificent, the last ... JIM CALHOUN CHRISTINA ENGELA From about nine or 10 minutes to about two minutes left in the game, we scored all the points we nee... GENE IBA We got really stagnant in the last 10 minutes of the game (on defense). The assignments that we were... DAVE LEITAO JEAN-MICHEL JARRE STEVE JOBS I think everybody was thinking about that -- we've lost a lot of games at the end of the games. I th... ANDRES NOCIONI Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways a... THOMAS KELLER When you shop for a house, you're there about 10 or 15 minutes, FRANK COOK We went to like a match-up zone to stop their penetration. That's the first time we've played that f... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON I definitely think that if she had him on the table for 10 minutes, he'd retract all of his statemen... DAVE ROBERTS I think the biggest part (of this service) is peace of mind and knowing that you can arrive about 10... HANS SCHWAB From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE If you are thinking about surrendering a dog to the animal shelter, we ask that you keep it in your ... LAURA DANIS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M DEYTH BANGER KURT COBAIN Probably 30 minutes of that game we're, if not equal, the better team on the floor. It's that 10 min... FRED CHMIEL CRISS JAMI CRAIG GROESCHEL We've been kicking the idea around for 10 years. Finally my buddy, Bill Brown, he lives in Detroit, ... CLIFF HOLDREAD SHANNON L. ALDER JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do ... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE ERNIE HARWELL If you think there isn't enough hate and polarization in America, you're going to love this bill. PATRICIA SCHROEDER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more. SAMMY SOSA CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start ... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE You have to give the audience what they want. Even if they tune in for 10 or 15 minutes it's nice to... JULIE CORDOVA BOB HOPE BOB HOPE She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m... KELSEY BRICKL GUY KAWASAKI GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ My patients call that the prison of positive thinking. There is no truth at all to the idea that if ... DAVID SPIEGEL I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we s... BILL CAMP CASS SUNSTEIN Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner. ERBLIN VUKAJ NIELS BOHR ALBERT EINSTEIN If you notice how the requirement for Constitution Day came about, it was a stipulation hidden in an... E. HICKS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY ED SMITH JANE AUSTEN DEMETRI MARTIN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have... MAGGIE DIXON I'm happy that we won. I don't care if it's by one run or 10 runs. At tournament time, you can't be ... DUNN MURAMARU DEREK JETER Better to play own cricket for 10 hours on the ground or in the gully than to watch it even for 10 m... ANUJ SOMANY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think we all like the idea of putting five dollars in and getting 100 from it. That's appealing, b... EMILY WATSON If we are 10-0 or 9-1 we are going to the playoffs because we made that possible and it wasn't in th... JASON PERRY You get to the rink, stretch for 10-15 minutes, go on the ice 20 minutes before practice starts and ... HENRIK LUNDQVIST DON MARQUIS DON MARQUIS HARLAN ELLISON If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'... DONALD ROBERT PERRY Are you indoctrinated?HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talkin... ANDY STOLL Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse y... SHAWN ACHOR You've got to be open-minded, but it is an open-ended situation. You have to see him on the field pe... BRIAN SABEAN Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within th... EMIR KUSTURICA If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed t... CHERYL INGHAM STEPHEN HAWKING RAND PAUL Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game a... TAKERU KOBAYASHI JOE MCCARTHY HENRY JAMES CRAIG GROESCHEL From Glasgow to Sydney and back again sooner or later the earth will turn from point A to point B an... GARY F EVANS... I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need... ANN KOK Love me or Hate me, Cry for me or Laugh at me.
It doesn't matter, you're still thinking about me. PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN RICK RIORDAN DOUGLAS ADAMS We have to watch what we do in the first 10 or 15 minutes because we don't want to end the tie, or m... GORDON STRACHAN I've been consistently struck by the amount of biblical illiteracy among Christians in churches. You... PAUL CHAMBERLAIN DIANA WYNNE JONES NEIL GAIMAN PAULO COELHO I think we had to weather the storm for the first 10 minutes or so before we warmed up. We were a li... JEFF ROHRMAN When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason -... BILL JAMES The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the ... BILL JAMES Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. BILL JAMES Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will ch... BILL JAMES I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. BILL JAMES Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is th... BILL JAMES None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the... BILL JAMES It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the n... BILL JAMES What they're adding is an additional dimension to the Indiana trout program. It's a fish that's high... BILL JAMES There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is fig... BILL JAMES Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-wor... BILL JAMES The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how w... BILL JAMES The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed. BILL JAMES If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers... BILL JAMES It's easy to make a basket. Getting the material is the hard work. BILL JAMES All 22 guys on our team, they mean a lot to me. I love every one of them. It?s a shame this had to e... BILL JAMES If we come out of the first period tied, who knows?Maybe it?s a different game. If it?s 2-2 or 3-2 g... BILL JAMES Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion. BILL JAMES We're starting to get pipelines full and (there is) some concern moving product forward. We're prett... BILL JAMES There is a backlog right now but I don't know if it (can be blamed) on anybody else but Mother Natur... BILL JAMES I've lived in South Florida for 20 years, and up until five years ago, lived about three miles from ... BILL JAMES We had a really good start in all of our schools. It went exceptionally well. It was almost like our... BILL JAMES Nobody likes to write about race. I thought I would do a [statistical] run of black players against ... BILL JAMES Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. BILL JAMES Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. BILL JAMES In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to... BILL JAMES Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by hav... BILL JAMES I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm ... BILL JAMES You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. BILL JAMES Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. BILL JAMES Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. BILL JAMES Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We... BILL JAMES I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. BILL JAMES When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you -... BILL JAMES There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well tak... BILL JAMES Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers? BILL JAMES Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our ba... 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What is the Other?" they ask.
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