Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes
I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.
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Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.
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I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
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You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.
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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
