Michael Heisley Quotes
I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'
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I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
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Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."
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No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
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Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
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Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.
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I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
