Brian P. Cleary Quotes
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I don't want to get fat.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
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I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
