Susan Isaacs Quotes
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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The light came through the window, Straight from the sun above, And so inside my little room There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me.
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
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I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.
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Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
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By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.