John L. Flannery Quotes
The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
Quotes to Explore
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.
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If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.
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The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.
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The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
