Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman Quotes
Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
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What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.
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Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
