Mario Lemieux Quotes
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
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I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
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You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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I didn't like the way the game was being played.