Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Woody Allen Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Casey Kasem Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
    Casey Kasem
     
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  • Bobby Flay Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, Seats of the gods in the limitless ether, Looming sublimely aloft and afar.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • John Berryman Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
    John Berryman
    American poet and scholar (1914 - 1972)
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  • Bill Belichick Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.
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  • Bethany Mota BB cream is my lifesaver! It's so light on my skin, plus it protects and gives me coverage at the same time. My favorites are from Maybelline and Smashbox.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Martin Luther Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Paxton Hood Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
    Paxton Hood
     
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
    Aeschines
     
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  • Hilaire Belloc Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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