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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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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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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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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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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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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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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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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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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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.
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I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.
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Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.
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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.
