Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
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What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
