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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.


Bob Feller


#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.


Dana Carvey


#comic #describing #impossible #joke #near

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.


Steve Case


#best #comfort #comfort zone #figure #fill

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.


James Chanos


#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

I like the fact that music is more abstract.


Bryan Ferry


#fact #i #like #more #music

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?


Marsilio Ficino


#attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.


Beverly Cleary


#am #because #books #changing #constant

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.


William Feather


#kind #like #lot #naturally #people

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.


Italo Calvino


#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.


Jane Campion


#attraction #me #violence






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