Jim Lehrer Quotes
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I love working the legislative process.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
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I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
