Gary Bettman Quotes

At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

  

  Orville Wright
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• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
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• I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

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• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  

  Saint Augustine
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• When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
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• It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!

  

  Odeya Rush
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• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
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