Joe Torre Quotes
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.
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During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.
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I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
