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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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
