Bernard Ebbers Quotes
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, 'Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.'
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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
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Mehr Licht!
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America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the planet in manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines, engineering the smart energy grid, and inspiring the next great companies that will be the titans of a new green energy economy.
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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
