John Key Quotes
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
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I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.
