Leo Durocher Quotes

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

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• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Look
  • Got

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Party
  • Day
  • Years

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Rock
  • Building
  • Climb

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Start
  • Strange
  • Research

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Feeling
  • Random

• We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.

  

  Paul Broun
  • Country
  • America
  • Financial

• Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

  

  Michael Dell
  • Success
  • Mistakes
  • Obstacles

• While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • Long
  • Relationship

• As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

  

  Leo Durocher
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