Joe Torre Quotes

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

Joe Torre

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• We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Up
  • America

• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Worst

• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Music
  • Sound

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • God
  • Team
  • Fall

• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • American
  • Loyalty

• We don't want our players getting hurt.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Players

• I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Poetry
  • Medium
  • Suck

• I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Man
  • Know

• You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Society

• Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Problem
  • U.S.
  • Obesity

• Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

  

  Natasha Lyonne

• Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Wisdom

• In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Life
  • Done

• Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Different
  • Home

• It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • People
  • Business
  • Decision

• Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Fall

• It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Family

• After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

  

  Joe Torre