Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
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I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
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How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong.
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I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
