Joseph Nye Quotes
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you.' I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
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A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.
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Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.
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Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
