Bernard Ebbers Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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To a world sick with racism, get well soon.
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The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.
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I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
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We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
