Douglas Conant Quotes
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
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I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
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There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.
