John Gavin Quotes
Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
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I'm not a control freak.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
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Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.
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Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
