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"I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?"
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"You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems."
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"Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame."
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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
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"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."
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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."
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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
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"Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work."
Work
"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
Baseball
"People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right."
Sports
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
Affection
"The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up."
Baseball
"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too."
Baseball
"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
Sports
"In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation."
Love
"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
Statistics
"The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers."
Life
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