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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'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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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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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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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
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We pretend that the debate about genetically modified crops is a debate about science when the reality is, actually, that the science is very clear. It is really a debate about values.
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Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.
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I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
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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.
