"My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date."

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Steve Rushin

#New York Quotes #Team Quotes #Ice Quotes

“The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”
“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.”

Source : General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.51, Pickle Partners Publishing
“It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.”
“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”
“Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.”
“I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.”

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