Warren Bennis Quotes
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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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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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.
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Virtually everything I learned about leadership traits and core values, I learned in the Marine Corps. To this day, I keep a list of the traits in a little black book, 14 of them, including integrity, justice, bearing, enthusiasm, endurance - all indicators you aspire to when you're a leader.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
