Fred DeLuca Quotes
After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.
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The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
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I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.
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After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
