Fred DeLuca Quotes
If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person – her husband.
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We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.'
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.
