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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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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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.
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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.
