Simon Sinek Quotes
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.
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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
