Robert Pozen Quotes
I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
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I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
