Joe Sakic Quotes

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

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• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • God
  • Trying

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Painting
  • Escape

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Better
  • Down

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Culinary
  • Tastes
  • Recipe

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Young
  • Looking
  • Portfolio

• Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Daseinsunmöglichkeit.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Die

• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Struggle
  • Galaxy

• For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Real
  • Identity

• I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Request

• After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Great
  • Family
  • Game