Byron Dorgan Quotes

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Byron Dorgan

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• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Present
  • Star

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • New York
  • Homeless

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Look

• Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Children
  • Together
  • Relationship

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Young
  • New York
  • Stage

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • City
  • Young

• It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Long
  • True
  • Political

• James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Important
  • Wrong

• The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Great
  • Long
  • Book

• People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.

  

  George Lee Butler
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Serious

• Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

  

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
  • Responsibility
  • Certain
  • Roles

• You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Responsibility