Michael Otto Quotes
One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.
