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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I know I have to calm down a little bit, but everybody has a different way to pitch, and that’s my way.
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It's been good to go against guys like that and play well. But I still have a long way to go. Those are two of the best doing it right now. When you add Yao Ming and Jermaine O'Neal into the mix, those are the best centers in the league right now, so they are the guys you really want to play well against.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
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When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
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If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.
