Leo Durocher Quotes

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

Leo Durocher

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • Try
  • Either

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Medicine

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • You
  • Someone
  • Go

• India is my motherland.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • India
  • Motherland

• I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • American
  • Try
  • Appearance

• When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • Goals
  • Saying

• We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Real

• I love to help people live fully - I guess because I'm always striving towards that myself!

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Love
  • Guess
  • Striving

• Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • World
  • Graduation

• There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Real
  • Government
  • Balanced

• Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

  

  Emma Tennant
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

  

  Leo Durocher