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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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
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Dan Raad means Business...
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Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.
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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.
