Warren Bennis Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.
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I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
