Mario Lemieux Quotes
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I can only control what I can control.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.
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Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
