Leo Durocher Quotes

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Leo Durocher

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• I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

  

  Adam Faith
  • Energy
  • Financial
  • Sunday

• And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Look
  • Face

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• Nice girls aren't always what they seem.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Seem

• For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Great
  • Golf

• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • You
  • Kind

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Future
  • Injustice

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Money
  • Why

• Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Live
  • America

• No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • You
  • Young
  • Old

• A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Start

• I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Person
  • Honest
  • Straight

• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Know
  • Own

• Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

  

  Alan Edwin Petty
  • See
  • Philosophy
  • Patriarch

• There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Conduct

• Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Why
  • Football
  • Understanding

• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • American
  • Freedom

• You can't get any pictures from way back there.

  

  Leo Durocher