Kenneth Lay Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.
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Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.
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What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
