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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The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
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My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
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It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
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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.
