Charles Handy Quotes
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'
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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
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Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
