Alexander Ovechkin Quotes
My goal is the same, work like last year, play hard all the time. Try and score goals.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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'The Office' is an amazing show. So is 'Extras.'
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
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My goal is the same, work like last year, play hard all the time. Try and score goals.
