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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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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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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Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
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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.
