John T. Chambers Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.
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I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.
