Gary Bettman Quotes
Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I do tell people when I'm walking down the street that they should really rethink their whole outfit.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Above all, I want to be happy, and at Barcelona, I'm happy.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.
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Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
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No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
