Dee Hock Quotes
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Maya Angelou said: “You remember people not by what they do, but by how they make you feel.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
