Rupert Murdoch (Keith Rupert Murdoch) Quotes
I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Wayne Thiebaud
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
J. A. Konrath
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
Sam Kean
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
Karan Mahajan
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Abraham Cahan
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
Oliver Reed
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
Irving Azoff
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
Joe Haldeman
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Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
Carolina Herrera
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I was a very strange child.
Alessia Cara
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I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.
Debi Thomas
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.
Joanne Rowling
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
Fantasia Barrino
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When we look at cutting people's commute - like that word infrastructure is boring. Who knows what that means? But what it really means is we got to cut people's commutes, we got to reduce congestion. Congestion costs the economy tens of billions of dollars a year to have people just stuck in traffic and non-productive time. So we got to fix that. And the best way to do that is invest in transit. And - so I'm happy that all three of the main parties seem to agree that investing in transit is important.
Naheed Nenshi
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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
Tom G. Palmer
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There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.
Amy Heckerling
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I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
Rupert Murdoch