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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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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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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Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
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Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
