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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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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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
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I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
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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.
