Jeff Smisek Quotes
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
