John Stumpf Quotes
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I'm a dork!
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.
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Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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To be human means to feel inferior.
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When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
