Bob Parsons Quotes
What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

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I'm cranky.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.
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I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.
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After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.
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People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.
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What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.