Kenneth Lay Quotes
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.
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Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.
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We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.
