Jacques Plante Quotes
How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
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When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
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We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Act which would correct the Supreme Court decision that was just recent that essentially guts wage discrimination law. It's been in place for years. It was gutted by this Roberts Court. We want it to be reversed by legislation. We hope that Congress passes it and that is on the desk for [Barack] Obama to sign as one of his first acts once he's sworn in. So it - I could go on, we have quite a well-developed list.
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How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?
