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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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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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 like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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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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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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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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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
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Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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They zealots would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
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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.
