Mario Lemieux Quotes
I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.
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Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
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Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
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I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.
