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

• 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
  • Day
  • Party
  • 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

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Quit

• When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Women
  • Door

• It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

  

  Dominika Cibulkova

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

  

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