Eriq La Salle quote: "But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off."

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ERIQ LA SALLE

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capi...
ERIQ LA SALLE

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good f...
ERIQ LA SALLE

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doi...
ERIQ LA SALLE

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you...
ERIQ LA SALLE

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given ti...
ERIQ LA SALLE

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. N...
ERIQ LA SALLE

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ...
ERIQ LA SALLE

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now...
ERIQ LA SALLE

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films th...
ERIQ LA SALLE

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and...
ERIQ LA SALLE

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've hea...
ERIQ LA SALLE

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
ERIQ LA SALLE

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
ERIQ LA SALLE

Love is an egoism of two
ANTOINE DE LA SALLE

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
DAVID SALLE

There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
LA INDIA

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex...
LA INDIA

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anythi...
LA INDIA

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.
LA INDIA

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just f...
LA INDIA

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
LA INDIA

Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had t...
LA INDIA

Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going ...
LA INDIA

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's jus...
LA INDIA

From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gai...
LA INDIA

At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with...
LA INDIA

I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
LA INDIA

My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I...
LA INDIA

Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
LA INDIA

Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's f...
LA INDIA

I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
LA INDIA

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is...
LA INDIA

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment...
LA INDIA

It is far easier to know men than to know man.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

When all are wrong, everyone is right.
LA LEHAUSSEE

We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
LA HARPE

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
LA INDIA

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great or great evil without bringing about more ...
LA ROCHERFOUCAULD

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and ye...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
LA BRUYERE

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
LA BRUYERE

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
LA FONTAINE

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La ...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.
LA ROCHEFOUCAUL

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already posses...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Its is not a question of just dashing in for a few minutes to grab a bag or a book. He spends at lea...
LA STAMPA

He of all people ... ought to be aware of how common it is for those who pose as children to be law ...
LA RUE

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA LA FONTAINE

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowl...
LA MONTE YOUNG

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
LA MONTE YOUNG

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
LA MONTE YOUNG

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.
LA MONTE YOUNG

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
LA MONTE YOUNG

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which...
LA MONTE YOUNG

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
LA MONTE YOUNG

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.
SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE

The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
JOHN LA FARGE

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE

I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives int...
TONY LA RUSSA

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
THOMAS LA MANCE

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
THOMAS LA MANCE

I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportuni...
TONY LA RUSSA

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibil...
TONY LA RUSSA

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system w...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that ...
TONY LA RUSSA

I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives in...
TONY LA RUSSA

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete...
TONY LA RUSSA

There are always distractions, if you allow them.
TONY LA RUSSA

Stupid is as stupid does.
JOSEPH LA BONDE

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA

Death is harder on those who are left behind.
ROBERT LA FOSSE

We worked hard to get here. Our club has been so relentless, and we're in a great position. ... The ...
TONY LA RUSSA

I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you c...
TONY LA RUSSA

There are a lot of pieces that remind you of the old Busch. There's enough there to remind you of th...
TONY LA RUSSA

I don't necessarily think you can separate the two, ... When you come into a game with a big lead, a...
TONY LA RUSSA

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted b...
TONY LA RUSSA

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t...
TONY LA RUSSA

I've paid him a lot of compliments. He earned a lot of respect, with a lot of tough situations. Ther...
TONY LA RUSSA

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as th...
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA

Guys like Derrek Lee and Albert Pujols and other guys at the top, Miguel Cabrera , nobody throws the...
TONY LA RUSSA

Albert rolled his ankle. He's fine.
TONY LA RUSSA

The ball Albert hit would've gone out anywhere. There weren't balls that were hit to the warning tra...
TONY LA RUSSA

Hancock and Brad both, in fastball counts they threw fastballs, which is OK as long as you have some...
TONY LA RUSSA

Everyone of us is a bit crazy,it's what helps us come out of hard times stronger than before, but no...
ANNICK LA-BRANCHE

I feel like in that series, just like all year long, when things got tense, each of those guys made ...
TONY LA RUSSA

It wasn't good enough. It looked like he was kind of hurrying to get outs. He missed his location a ...
TONY LA RUSSA

[La Russa on Saturday suggested Brad Thompson would be Mulder's replacement if he couldn't pitch on ...
TONY LA RUSSA

Thank God you are here. The shooting and looting started a week ago when the evacuation began. The l...
AL LA CROIX

The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez...
TONY LA RUSSA

The whole point about resting guys, it's all academic at this point, because we've got days off. We ...
TONY LA RUSSA

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All th...
LIANNE LA HAVAS

There's a way to win when the other guy is pitching good against you. You've got to pitch and defend...
TONY LA RUSSA

I think he's going to start. Unless I go in (the clubhouse) and find out something that wasn't obvio...
TONY LA RUSSA

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

That changes things dramatically. He made one mistake - he got (LaRue), 0-2, then gave him something...
TONY LA RUSSA

You can do anything you want with him. You can hit-and-run with him, bunt. We push the game with him...
TONY LA RUSSA

I always say you don't just win with homers. You need a bunt, you need a hit-and-run, you need a ste...
TONY LA RUSSA

I think there's a growing number of pitchers who want to have a plan going into a game about how...
TONY LA RUSSA

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you jus...
TONY LA RUSSA

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the...
HENRI LA FONTAINE

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hel...
TONY LA RUSSA

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.
TONY LA RUSSA

It's not about him; it's about the team, ... I told him, 'If you're going to be unhappy and pouting,...
TONY LA RUSSA

You may want to try your current lender, because sometimes they will just do a processing fee and lo...
ANTHONY LA GIGLIA

You've got to hit the ball like the [left] fielder did, on a line. You've got to really jolt it to h...
TONY LA RUSSA

[Williams] dodged a bullet in the first inning. That helped him. But he just pitched better.
TONY LA RUSSA

I don't think it's unorthodox. Whenever he does something it's just aggressive and makes good sense....
TONY LA RUSSA

I have all sorts of actors wearing [the jewelry] now.
GEMMA LA MANA

[Carpenter is] really going after hitters, and ... getting in situations and making pitches and stay...
TONY LA RUSSA

It's a better setup. We could have made an adjustment and pitched Matt tomorrow, or Supp tomorrow, w...
TONY LA RUSSA

Early on without Lance Berkman, that really stretched their lineup, and then after Berkman got back ...
TONY LA RUSSA

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting bec...
LIANNE LA HAVAS

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA

If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.
TONY LA RUSSA

I can remember once when they were going through the top three or four closers, a couple months ago ...
TONY LA RUSSA

Any of you guys that cast any kind of negative implication on Albert, you ought to be ... ashamed of...
TONY LA RUSSA

He is playing so good in every facet of the game. He's hitting fourth, and that's because nothing bo...
TONY LA RUSSA

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult fo...
TONY LA RUSSA

You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is whe...
TONY LA RUSSA

We understand we're officially in October baseball. It just doesn't seem right to celebrate when you...
TONY LA RUSSA

The best way to keep yourself competitive is not to change anything. Right now we're trying to grind...
TONY LA RUSSA

This is one of the toughest losses, and one of the best losses I can remember, just because what the...
TONY LA RUSSA

It's a compliment to Lidge, is what it is, ... We've got a better chance to bunt [Pujols] in than ge...
TONY LA RUSSA

Mulder was spectacular, but there were a lot of outstanding things, ... Mostly, the way we competed,...
TONY LA RUSSA

Those tips he gave me saved my baseball life,
TONY LA RUSSA

Sometimes, you have things happen that make you scratch your head - like winning 57 games after Darr...
TONY LA RUSSA

That's a long way. But you know he's going to try to do it.
TONY LA RUSSA

I love Rick Ankiel. There's something good about having him on a ballclub.
TONY LA RUSSA

He pitched nine innings against a tough offensive club -- that's dominating. He had a 2-0 pitch to a...
TONY LA RUSSA

It's just amazing how often he does that. I can't remember seeing a pitcher in all the years I've ma...
TONY LA RUSSA

That looks so terrible. The guy [Piazza] is a great pro. That incident screwed up the whole night fo...
TONY LA RUSSA

That would be unique. You play the schedule, however it works. They've played us very well, so I'm n...
TONY LA RUSSA

We saved runs all night long. That's the way you had to win that game, because they had so many oppo...
TONY LA RUSSA

We went through this last year. ... We're not going to get into wild-card formulas. The magic number...
TONY LA RUSSA

There are two challenges for a club, the first is the regular season, a six-month grind. So if you h...
TONY LA RUSSA

Someone told me a long time ago a good test in situations like this, ... You ask the guy, 'If this w...
TONY LA RUSSA

You have to think of the loss of a guy and what that means to his teammates and family, ... Your sea...
TONY LA RUSSA

We worked hard to get here. The club has been so relentless, as strong-minded as you can be.
TONY LA RUSSA

My whole concentration on the game is affected by a pitch that got away. You know, that looks so ter...
TONY LA RUSSA

Over the weekend, he was very aggressive in his playing and it's barking. The medical and training s...
TONY LA RUSSA

It's a real dream come true to win here. Roland Hemond once told me to enjoy the moment and that's w...
TONY LA RUSSA

The Cubs have played us so tough all year, ... We had (Greg) Maddux going against us so we knew it w...
TONY LA RUSSA

To me, 2002 was so personal and emotional. I believe that you create your own destiny, but it was al...
TONY LA RUSSA

The arm, I don't think it's the most important part of a catcher when it comes to the Gold Glove. It...
TONY LA RUSSA

Every time we play him in the last two-three innings of a game, we're pushing him. It wouldn't be a ...
TONY LA RUSSA

If Wally gets excited and gives him an inch, ... it's going to be two or three inches.
TONY LA RUSSA

For a guy who is supposed to be very tough, he's got a lot of cupcake in him. I saw him in an aftern...
TONY LA RUSSA

He's going to be a star. But he still needs to develop some weapons.
TONY LA RUSSA

If you have a rate that you're seeing to begin to increase, look for alternatives. It makes the most...
ANTHONY LA GIGLIA

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.
TONY LA RUSSA

I don't care how well you throw if your guys are terrible at unloading the ball and holding guys on,...
TONY LA RUSSA

The only shoe that still has to drop is the earnings picture, and I think second-quarter earnings ar...
FRANK LA SALLA

In my opinion, and I think Dave [Duncan, pitching coach] shares this, if we had Al Reyes healthy, th...
TONY LA RUSSA

Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump...
TONY LA RUSSA

The bunting side of the game has not been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard.
TONY LA RUSSA

The bunting side of the game hasn't been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard.
TONY LA RUSSA

The bunting side of the game has not been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard,
TONY LA RUSSA

The bunting side of the game hasn't been the easiest thing for Chris and he's worked really hard,
TONY LA RUSSA

So you get Jim four and Walker in the five spot. I think that the other thing, too, if Reggie is not...
TONY LA RUSSA

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into ac...
TONY LA RUSSA

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.
LIANNE LA HAVAS

Ray was missing by a foot. He'll have to fix that.
TONY LA RUSSA

I haven't checked with Juan. I don't know why he wouldn't arrive tomorrow.
TONY LA RUSSA

That's how he pitched early in the year. He just got in a funk. In the middle of that funk, he had a...
TONY LA RUSSA

I guess they don't want it to flare up. (But) everything's a big deal. You don't want it to catch yo...
TONY LA RUSSA

The way it's all come together, it's just been amazing. If anybody goes to that show and doesn't com...
TONY LA RUSSA

House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic...
LA TISHA HONOR

Every once in a while he tweaks it and then he gets some relief, ... It hasn't been unrelenting. He'...
TONY LA RUSSA

He gave me the thumbs up. He goes.
TONY LA RUSSA

He was missing the target a foot a lot of times. He just didn't have it.
TONY LA RUSSA

He was missing the target by a foot a lot of times. He just didn't have it, and they took advantage....
TONY LA RUSSA

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days ...
TONY LA RUSSA

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
WESTON LA BARRE

I would think the biggest misconception about our club was we have this powerhouse offensive team.
TONY LA RUSSA

That's the kind of move you make that tells the players you've got the [guts] to do what you think i...
TONY LA RUSSA

I think they're starting to feel good about how they're throwing. We've shown the kind of depth that...
TONY LA RUSSA

Tip your to hat to Roger Clemens. You could tell he was ouchy there, and we didn't get anything off ...
TONY LA RUSSA

You take your hat off to Roger Clemens. You could tell he was ouchy there a little bit.
TONY LA RUSSA

(Clemens) is tough enough to hit when it's over the plate and if he starts getting a big plate, that...
TONY LA RUSSA

He had a good throw. We're leaning toward it, (but) we're going to wait and see how he feels tomorro...
TONY LA RUSSA

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder i...
DE LA TOUR

Hal talked about Scott's last two pinch-hitting appearances [before the homer] and the fact that he ...
TONY LA RUSSA

Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that n...
ZELDA LA GRANGE

He hasn't started working out hard yet. I don't know enough about his stroke. He missed a lot of pla...
TONY LA RUSSA

He's really got a short fuse. And when he doesn't do well, he gets [angry]. It's something he'll lea...
TONY LA RUSSA

We have kind of a tradition. The first bottle of champagne, you look around, who is the most appropr...
TONY LA RUSSA

It reminds me of ... how many Cy Youngs have I been involved with? ... [LaMarr] Hoyt's, [Bob] Welch'...
TONY LA RUSSA

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it...
TONY LA RUSSA

We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no lo...
ANDREW LA BARBERA

What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don...
TONY LA RUSSA

When I gave that compliment last year, ... I was hoping that he was going to retire.
TONY LA RUSSA

You've got to get what you deserve,
TONY LA RUSSA

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

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Eriq La Salle

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Eriq La Salle

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