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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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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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
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As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.
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I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aerial Pilates; you're in the air and with straps. It's crazy fun.
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I have seen it stated that no expert is quick enough to run over a dog; that a dog is always able to skip out of his way. I think that that may be true; but I think that the reason he couldn't run over the dog was because he was trying to. I did not try to run over any dog. But I ran over every dog that came along.
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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.
