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... Nice Guys Finish First (BBC Horizon television series) is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co-operative behaviour, and ... Selfish Gene (added in the second edition, 1989) is also named Nice Guys Finish First and explores similar material ...
... Two Guys from Milwaukee (UK title Royal Flush) is a 1946 comedy film about a Balkan prince who wants to see for himself what America is really like ... in New York and pretends to be an average guy ... Diamond reteamed for the 1948 followup, Two Guys from Texas ...
... In 2004, Paul E ... Durr became the town's second mayor ...
... individuals, notably Mel Ott, he observed that they were all "nice guys", but would nonetheless finish last (while his Dodgers were in first place), summing up ... (See 1966 Chicago Cubs, below.) Thus the quote "Nice guys finish last" has long been attributed to Durocher, including an entry in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ... as it is remembered actually came from headline writers distilling Durocher's quote that "The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place, not in this dugout" into a pithy soundbite ...
... is the only place that you can take the best Midget drivers from USAC and Badger, and guys in the Rocky Mountain Midget Association, guys from USAC Sprint Cars and Silver Crown Cars and the World of Outlaws, all ... Those drivers are all at one place for the weekend, and when you've got guys competing for just the 24 starting spots in the A-Main, you have some of the best ... Crown winner Dave Darland said, "You've got guys from all over the world ...
Famous quotes containing the words finish, nice and/or guys:
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Mrs. Grayle: You know, this’ll be the first time I’ve ever killed anyone I knew so little and liked so well. What’s your name?
Philip Marlowe: Philip for short.
Mrs. Grayle: Philip. Philip Marlowe. A name for a duke. You’re just a nice mug.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“For most of the guys killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)