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"My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded."
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"After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career."
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"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing."
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"But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings."
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"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
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"Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster."
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"I love people and I love to be around people."
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"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."
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"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue."
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"They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests."
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