Joe Torre Quotes
Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.Joe Torre
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers -
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice -
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
Victor LaValle -
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
Nadia Comaneci -
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
Daisy Fuentes -
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
J. G. Stedman -
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart -
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
Flavor Flav
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
Olivia De Havilland -
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
Gary Ackerman -
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson -
When something is troubling me, people know about it.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
Harlan Coben -
There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
Adam Cohen
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The truth does not need to be defended.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
Elisha Gray -
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
Fred Wilson -
But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.
John Breaux -
There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.
George Eliot -
Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.
Joe Torre