Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
