Bobby Orr Quotes
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
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If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
