Max de Pree Quotes
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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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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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.
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I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
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Depression is the evangelist for emptiness.
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
