Gary Bettman Quotes
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.
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Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
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Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
