Mario Lemieux Quotes
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.Mario Lemieux
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
Saina Nehwal -
Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
Samantha Power -
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen -
I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
Bebe Rexha -
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya -
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker -
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
Halima Aden -
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
Garth Brooks -
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
L. Neil Smith -
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
Irvine Welsh -
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
Octavio Paz -
There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
Wanda Jackson
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
Brandon Stanton -
To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
Jose Andres -
Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.
Naftali Bennett -
If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.
Donatella Versace -
I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.
Miriam Shor -
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.
Mario Lemieux