Charles H. Percy Quotes
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
Quotes to Explore
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.
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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
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Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
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Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.
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There is nothing like watching the woman you are in love with make a baby, make a miracle! It is one hell of a ride, and I am only seven months in. Time is flying by, but I am taking it all in. It is the most important thing that I have ever been a part of in my life.
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Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.
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We would never consider for a moment paying the team members equally. In the Olympics we usually have some of the world’s fastest runners yet have lost some of the relay races because we could not pass the baton without dropping it! We take it for granted that accountability must be individual; there must be someone to praise for victory and someone to blame for defeat, the individual where “the buck stops.” In fact, instead of admiring relationships, we value and admire individual competitiveness, winning out over each other, outdoing each other conversationally, pulling the clever con game, and selling stuff that the customer does not need. We believe in caveat emptor (let the buyer beware), and we justify exploitation with “There’s a sucker born every minute.” We breed mistrust of strangers, but we don’t have any formulas for how to test or build trust. We value our freedom without realizing that this breeds caution and mistrust of each other. When we are taken in by a Ponzi scheme and lose all our money, we don’t blame our culture or our own greed—we blame the regulators who should have caught it and kick ourselves for not getting in on it earlier.
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Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
