#base

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#become #business #business world #create #different

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#along #around #based #coming #family

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#got #i #knew #know #life

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#baseball #nothing

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #fastball #good

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#base #been #boxed #grew #i

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#america #anybody #based #french #headlines

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#base #because #been #bush #bush presidency