Eric Lindros Quotes
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
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I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
