Bobby Orr Quotes
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.
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The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
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The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
