Jack Markell Quotes
My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
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Many biblical passages teach that we're not saved by our own efforts but by the grace of God alone. But the same passages also tell us good works are an essential evidence of the salvation experience. We're not saved by good works, but for good works. It begins with God's grace, and it's sustained by his grace as you shape your character by what you do as you cross the bridge.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
