Galen Weston Quotes
Uncovering that behaviour was a very dark moment. Determining what to do about it was easy. In life and business, when things go wrong, I believe that you have to accept responsibility and take the next step. When you falter, you need to face forward
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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Uncovering that behaviour was a very dark moment. Determining what to do about it was easy. In life and business, when things go wrong, I believe that you have to accept responsibility and take the next step. When you falter, you need to face forward
