"When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete."

-- Wayne Gretzky

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“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.”
“People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.”
“I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?”
“My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.”
“What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie.”
“As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.”
“Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.”

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