Gary Bettman Quotes
I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
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I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
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I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
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...wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
