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As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics. -- Joe Sakic
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. -- Tim Cahill
I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe. -- Dan Fogelberg
I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears. -- Patrick Roy
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. -- Benjamin Disraeli
What I've learned so far from researching is that to win the Stanley Cup, you have to make the playoffs. -- Ted Leonsis
I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere. -- Sarah Zettel
He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England. -- Gianfranco Zola
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it. -- David Peace
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars. -- David Prowse
I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him. -- Dennis Hull
I won eight Stanley Cups as a player, and I've been told it's because I played on great teams. I won two as a general manager, and I've been told it's because I was lucky. -- Serge Savard
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started. -- Keir Dullea
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup. -- Daniel Goleman
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. -- Stanley Baldwin
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody! -- Ralph Stanley
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince. -- Julie Harris
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. -- Sidney Crosby
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. -- Lester Bangs
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective. -- Guy Lafleur
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso. -- Guy Lafleur
I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A. -- Frank Quattrone
Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie. -- Jonah Hill
Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal. -- Bobby Orr
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. -- Marcel Dionne
I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. -- Ishmael Reed
Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. -- Thomas Frank
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion. -- Tim Cahill
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over. -- Steve Yzerman
When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while. -- Kevin Nealon
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. -- Ted Lindsay
I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. -- Christopher Nolan
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear. -- Chip Conley
The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. -- Wesley Morris
I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder. -- Archie Carr
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal. -- David Brooks
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed. -- Roger Ebert
Stanley Cup winners don't hand back the Stanley Cup. -- Rob Ford
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. -- Roberto Benigni
I'd rather have a 16, as in Stanley Cup playoff wins. -- Lindy Ruff
Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup) -- Bruce Boudreau
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley. -- Sally Kirkland
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley. -- Patty Loveless
At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever. -- Fred Shero
"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. -- Walter Scott
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. -- Pat Williams
Loose and jocular, Stanley proved to be a master at relating to nightclub audiences -- Joel Selvin
I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick. -- Olivier Megaton
Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them. -- Phil Silvers
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator. -- Scott Farris
Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal. -- Mats Sundin
Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it. -- Ed Belfour
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs. -- Jack Adams
Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon. -- Gene Hart
One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. -- George Vecsey
As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. -- Five for Fighting
I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings. -- Patrick Roy
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. -- Matthew Modine
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories. -- Steven Spielberg
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. -- Ed Belfour
I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears. -- Patrick Roy
My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that. -- Jeremy Roenick
My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect. -- Matthew Morrison
Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup! -- Guy Lafleur
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. -- Arthur C. Clarke
It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup. -- Wayne Gretzky
I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. -- Mark Messier
I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad. -- Al Jourgensen
'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships. -- Henry Ian Cusick
It's ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine -- Pittacus Lore
Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships. -- Henry Ian Cusick
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. -- Peter Weir
In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues. -- David Hewson
River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. -- Robert Gottlieb
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Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either. -- Jan Harlan
I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. -- Joel Coen
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling. -- Marlon Brando
Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. -- Peter Bondra
Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage? -- George Augustus Henry Sala
Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup. -- Joe Sakic
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically. -- Philip Kitcher
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?' -- Tom Cruise
The Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick to do 'The Lord Of The Rings.' This was before Tolkien sold the rights. They approached him, and he said, 'No.' -- Peter Jackson
My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast. -- Michael Weatherly
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. -- Ridley Scott
When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth. -- Tahir Shah
My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old. -- Mike McCready
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O. -- Mychal Thompson
Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities. -- Frank Darabont
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. -- Terry Southern
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution. -- Adam Ross
Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best. -- Garrison Keillor
Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him. -- Tom Cruise
I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million. -- Michel Gondry
This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson. -- Ella Baker
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious. -- James Thayer
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution. -- Adam Ross
[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew. -- John Heilemann
I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs. -- Meryl Streep
I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor. -- Dick Cavett
Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one -- Roddy McDowall
I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine. -- Dave Gibbons
I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in. -- Tavi Gevinson
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley. -- Dick York
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising. -- Annalee Newitz
Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams. -- Renford Reese
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved. -- James Gray
I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots. -- Robert Crumb
He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played. -- Mario Lemieux
I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good. -- Anthony Mackie
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you. -- Adam Oates
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him. -- Ricky Skaggs
As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there. -- Steve Yzerman
You come in as this satellite part of the film [Catching Fire], so I only see Stanley [Tucci] in my scenes. These kinds of movies have so many different components; it's about as different from doing The Girl as you could imagine. -- Toby Jones
In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971]. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got. -- Winona Ryder
[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups. -- Sydney Pollack
When I was in film school at USC, I wrote my thesis script about a woman on Wall Street - specifically a woman who used to work at Morgan Stanley, sort of based on her life. Through that process, I did some research. -- Meera Menon
I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance. -- John Atkinson
We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run. -- Steve Yzerman

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