Peter Drucker Quotes
Financial 'synergy' is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
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Frankly, I don’t care what others say.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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Financial 'synergy' is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
