John T. Chambers Quotes
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
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Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.
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You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.
