John Caudwell Quotes
I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
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I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
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It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
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I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
