Alain Vigneault Quotes
We were ready, but nothing transpired. For us, we're just in reaction mode a lot of the time.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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Everybody's a nun.
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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.
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I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.
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I'm a big sucker for chocolate, and I love beer, but I can't drink it because it goes straight to my face like the Michelin Man.
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You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.
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We were ready, but nothing transpired. For us, we're just in reaction mode a lot of the time.
