Fred Funk Quotes
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf -
Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
Nancy Lublin -
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham -
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
Queen Latifah -
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
Ed Balls -
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
Os Guinness -
A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
Natalie Massenet -
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
Victor Ponta -
When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
Vince Clarke Erasure -
Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
Vanessa Hudgens
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
Zoe Sugg -
If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
Taraji P. Henson -
I quite like being who I am.
Gary Barlow Take That -
My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
Maisie Williams -
I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
L.A. Reid
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Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
Luke Donald -
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
Daniel Pinkwater -
I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
Irving Azoff -
Love is a gift.
Kathy Najimy -
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
Joel Salatin -
I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.
Fred Funk