Eric Shinseki Quotes
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
