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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There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
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Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.
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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.
