Mario Lemieux Quotes
I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.
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I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.
