Michael Curtiz Quotes
So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
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So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
