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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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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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 have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
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I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.
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The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
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My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
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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?
