John P. Kotter Quotes
In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
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In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
