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

• I try to photobomb as much as possible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Much

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• 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

• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Good
  • Free
  • Freedom

• 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

• I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Up
  • Why
  • Want

• Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

  

  Don Nelson
  • Today
  • Guy
  • Team

• We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• She takes an undaughterful pleasure in noting that now the newspapers are beginning to concede with heartiness that she does not need the help of my name, but can make her way quite satisfactorily upon her own merits. This is insubordination, and must be crushed.

  

  Mark Twain
  • She
  • Help
  • Beginning

• [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Snow

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

  

  Joe Torre