Charles Handy Quotes
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
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Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!
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In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
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For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.
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I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.
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We're really in limbo. Frustrated is the best word I can come up with.
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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson characterizes the current mind-set in this way: Much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else’s and not your own.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
