Bernard Ebbers Quotes
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'
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When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.