A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes (25 quotes)

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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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„This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.“
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„My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.“
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„Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.“
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„I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.“
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„Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.“
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„All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.“
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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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„The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.“
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„There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.“
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„The professionals must set a good example.“
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„Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.“
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„Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.“
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„On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.“
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„No one man is superior to the game.“
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„Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.“
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„Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.“
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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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„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.“
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„A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.“

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A. Bartlett Giamatti
Author born: April 04, 1938
Author died: September 01, 1989
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Educator

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