Steve Yzerman (Stephen Gregory Yzerman) Quotes
Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
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If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
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Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.
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I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.
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This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.
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I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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I remember when we were going to release 'Dancing On My Own,' and I went into the record label crying to them that I was terrified people wouldn't support me anymore if they knew I was gay.
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I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did.
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It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.
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Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
