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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ~Russell Means
#quotes #russell-means #freedom #united-states
There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
#quotes #trevor-dunn #entertainment #music #new-york
I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
#quotes #richard-rodgers #theater
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
#quotes #george-santayana #traditions
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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proverbiosI see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
#quotes #nick-cave #music #australia
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
#quotes #salvatore-quasimodo #poetry
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
#quotes #john-lewis #black #elections #ohio
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Science is changing. God's Word does not change! ~Adrian Rogers
#quotes #adrian-rogers #science #religion
One does not look for good from God. ~Russian Proverb
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
#quotes #tunku-abdul-rahman #knowledge
The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
#quotes #michael-j-fox #nature #life #humility
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
#quotes #brad-paisley #writing #music
One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
#quotes #george-archer #golf
It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
#quotes #daphne-guinness #home
Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him; and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love. ~Alberto Moravia
#quotes #alberto-moravia #loyalty #love #self