Charles Handy Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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Dark Helmet : What? You went over my helmet?
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Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
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My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
