Joseph DeRisi Quotes
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly side. Obviously, I can't do that with cycling. I can't go with nice girly hair and full make-up.
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I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.
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One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.
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If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.
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The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
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To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
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I have never been a cynical person.
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.
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I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
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The Singh Brothers are good. I've actually known them for a long time.
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Some time ago, I made a basic decision about the way in which I was going to live the little of life available to me The idea was to place myself in the presence of only those people who give off the warm, friendly vibrations which soothe the coating on my nerves. Life never was long enough to provide time for enemies.
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There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.
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Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.
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We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
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My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
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It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
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Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.
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I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
