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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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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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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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
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I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
