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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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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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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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.
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What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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I like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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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.
