John Pritzker Quotes
Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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The world is always terrible.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
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(About the battle of Kunersdorf) 'I shall not survive this cruel misfortune. The consequences will be worse than defeat itself. I have no resources left, and, to speak quite frankly I believe everything is lost. I shall not outlive the downfall of my country. Farewell, forever!'
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We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
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Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.
