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I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

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• There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hungry
  • Nibble

• I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Beginning
  • Vision
  • Movies

• I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Deep

• Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Animal
  • Plant

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Right
  • Soldier

• In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Job
  • Present
  • Company

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,While resignation gently slopes the way;And, all his prospects brightening to the last,His heaven commences ere the world be past.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Past
  • Heaven

• The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Art

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Father

• I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • America
  • Hope

• Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Done
  • Pretty

• The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

  

  Anthony Gregory
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Decentralization

• Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Science
  • Forever

• While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Direction

• Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'

  

  Max Greenfield
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Responsibility
  • Interest
  • Judgment

• I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

  

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