George Steinbrenner Quotes
Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?
