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Paul Coffey Quotes

People ask me all the time now, what's the most memorable moment of your career? It's always the championships. The first goal, the 50th - it doesn't matter. It's always the championships.

Paul Coffey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 1, 1961

Topics

Time Moment People Me Career Goal

I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.

Jessica Pare

Strength Man Find Done Kind She

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Robert Duncan

Money Government School System Going

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

Ron Rash

Writing Think Long You Look Down

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Mason Cooley

Mother Listening Always He His

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

Mike Rowe

Work Funny Business I Am Talking

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes

Success Impossible Order Must Absurd

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

Lou Doillon

Children Me Strong Think Movement

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

Communication Time Space Flying Go

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Bryan Batt

Family Love Business Age Dance New

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

Dreams Job Me Literature Fantasy

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Anne Stevenson

Me American Young More Always Poet

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Anthony Bourdain

Love Fear Confidence Food People