Uwe Reinhardt Quotes
We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
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When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
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Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.
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She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.
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We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.
