Charles Handy Quotes
A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
