Joe Torre Quotes
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
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I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.
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Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
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On that subject I am coy.
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I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
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Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.
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You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.
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Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
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I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.
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An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
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If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.
