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In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.


Denis Villeneuve

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DENIS DIDEROT It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
DENIS DIDEROT Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary d...
DENIS WAITLEY I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the fine...
DENIS WAITLEY It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, a...
DENIS WAITLEY The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENIS WAITLEY Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving...
DENIS WAITLEY To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and...
DENIS WAITLEY It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
DENIS WAITLEY Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time o...
DENIS WAITLEY I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
DENIS WAITLEY No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled gr...
DENIS KEARNEY In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We ca...
DENIS WAITLEY Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
DENIS LEARY