James MacGregor Burns Quotes
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.
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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
