People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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