Henry J. Kaiser Quotes
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
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I think I probably have one of the easiest jobs in America. I get to run behind the best O-line in America.
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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
