James Rouse Quotes
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
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New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
