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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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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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
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I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.
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I always got my work done before playing.
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My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
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Nice guys finish last.
