Gary Bettman Quotes
The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
