Ted Lindsay Quotes
I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.
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Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
