Leo Durocher Quotes
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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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.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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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.
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India is my motherland.
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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.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
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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.
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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.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.
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Poetry is composing for the breath.
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Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.
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I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.
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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
