Donald Faison Quotes
There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Good design should be honest.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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My education was very tough.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
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To pursue anything, you've got to have fun with it and to just never give up on it.
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We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
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I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
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There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.
