Harold S. Geneen Quotes
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
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We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
