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"I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."
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"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."
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"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."
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"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."
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"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
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"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."
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"When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you."
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"The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in."
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"I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life."
Family

"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."
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"It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents."
Old

"I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget."
Work

"It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause."
Career

"Play every game as if it is your last one."
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