Mario Lemieux Quotes
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.
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It's incredible to have people show their support when your doing something you love.
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Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.
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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
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Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.
