Saku Koivu Quotes
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
