Joe Torre Quotes
When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I don't want to get fat.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
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If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
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When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
