Plautus Quotes
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
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I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
