Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
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It's tough enough to wait six days for another chance. I had to wait eight months.
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I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.
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America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
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I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
