"Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse."

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Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

Leo Durocher

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“I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.”
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.”
“If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communicating their knowledge, but those who can communicate it are novelists. They are good novelists precisely because they are good psychologists.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
“Things have a terrible permanence when people die.”
“I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.”

Source : "Josh Hutcherson Dishes on the Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2009.
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.”

Source : "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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