Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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There is no one true church.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
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After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.
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Management must manage!
