Joe Torre Quotes
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
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For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.
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I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
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You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
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I looooove Miss Piggy.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.
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I am rich enough.
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There's only one New York.
