David Neeleman Quotes
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.
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The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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