"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."

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Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

Bill Veeck

#Baseball Quotes #Moving Quotes #Years Quotes

“There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.”

Source : "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“Whatever is contained must be released.”

Source : "Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist". Book by Helene Aylon, May 15, 2012.
“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”

Source : Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.7, Open Road Media
“If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.”
“You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.”
“Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.”

Source : Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”
“I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!”
“Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.”

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