Leo Durocher Quotes
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.
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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.
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L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.
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Nice guys finish last.
