Joe Torre Quotes
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
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Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
