Gary Bettman Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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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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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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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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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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If you fall off track and scarf down an unhealthy meal, that's fine. Eat better the next meal-not the next day.
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Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.
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I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
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Monumenta fatiscunt:mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
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I don't think capitalism can survive.
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I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.
