Tom Allen Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
Yair Lapid
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Pat Brown -
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
Fran Drescher -
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
Sam Smith -
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama -
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Zubin Mehta -
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
Ian Mckellen -
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
Abigail Disney -
I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
Ed Greenwood -
I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
Aasif Mandvi
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
W. Edwards Deming -
Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
Elvis Mitchell -
I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.
Kendall Jenner -
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
Gary Wolf -
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen