Harold S. Geneen Quotes
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
