Gary Bettman Quotes
Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
