John Wanamaker Quotes
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
Gail Devers -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
