Jim Broadbent Quotes
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man.
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There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
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The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
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'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.
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I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.
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The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
