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Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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When I first watched Bette Davis in 'All About Eve', I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she's Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you're like, 'What an icon.'
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
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So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.
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With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.
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'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner -
What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will ultimately become.
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In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.
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No one can understand my accent!
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
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Quality is the best business plan.
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We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.
