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Bill James
Bill James
American Writer
Born: Oct 5, 1949
About Because Crime People Think You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. Bill James
Better Knowing Always Answers Were Been Questions Than Much Asking Asking Questions
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. Bill James
Crime Example Important Become Relation Tremendously Details For Example Bed Where Story Staircase
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. Bill James
Justice Business Police Crime Our Faults System Misconduct How Expose
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. Bill James
Will Miracles Medicine Charge Given Hospitals Affluent Us Aspirin Professionalism
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers. Bill James
Try Down Difficult Resolve General Small Take Clear Answers Questions Very Break Them Large Specific
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently. Bill James
Knowledge World Crime Think Our About Shapes Talk Make How Decisions Social Base
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you. Bill James
You Worst Emotional Take Just Stories Serial Toll
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Bill James
Kind Wrong Wrong Kind Proud Doing Any Capable Us Things Stresses
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. Bill James
People Evil Rest Some People Think Everyone Those Some Give Something General Part Over Most Becomes Foreign Commit Capacity Themselves Us Separate Acts Desires
If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way. Bill James
Resonate Will Starts Other Side Way Say About Investing Highways Voters Know Him Talking Because Reduce Issue Office Unexpected Going Candidate Just Ignore Barriers Population Deer Chance Number
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. Bill James
You People Disagree Period Ultimately Persuade Agree
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. Bill James
You Defeat Winning Dodge Ultimately Close Elections
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened. Bill James
You Crime Out Cases Tend Until Happened Figure Fascinating
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not. Bill James
People Free Society Our Easy Risk Lifestyles Up Certain Certainly Grow Grow Up Believing
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. Bill James
People Airplane Tell Only Computers Like Automobiles Them
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. Bill James
Sports Little Things About Feel Like Understand Little Things
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness. Bill James
Good Genius Better Society Else Types Our Athletic Developing Almost Almost Anything Identifying Very Than Quite Rewarding Anything Anything Else Really Certain Skills
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. Bill James
Sports People First Crushed Top Would Athletes Through Never Pushing Because Encourage Get So Many People Children Unfortunate Breaks Who Many Each Each One Second

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