G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.
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In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
