If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. - John Templeton
I’m really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. - John Templeton
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, ‘That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn’t you be more open-minded?’ - John Templeton
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? - John Templeton
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced. - Weird Al Yankovic
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. - Weird Al Yankovic
I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently? - Weird Al Yankovic
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies. - Weird Al Yankovic
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. - Weird Al Yankovic
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' - Weird Al Yankovic
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better. - Weird Al Yankovic
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm. - Weird Al Yankovic
There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline. - Weird Al Yankovic
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive. - Wayne Gretzky
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer. - Wayne Gretzky
I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolades he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's brought to the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh. - Wayne Gretzky
I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it. - Wayne Gretzky
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