David M. Kelley Quotes
The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.
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I believe in the vast potentialities of mankind. But I see everywhere a wide disparity between what they can be and what they are. That is what I want to say in writing. I want to say the genius of the human race is mongrelized; I want to find out how mankind can be helped out of the animal kingdom into the clear sweet air.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?
