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 love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.
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Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
