Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.
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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
