Joe Torre Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
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There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving.
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The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.
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I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.
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My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.
