Phil Niekro Quotes
I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
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A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.
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I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.
