John Sculley Quotes
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.
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Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.
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Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
