Bob Iger Quotes
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it. 'It’s all about moderation,' he said, 'Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions.' (p. 152).
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What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
