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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We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
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When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
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There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.
