Ricardo Semler Quotes
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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I don't do radio or TV. I do people.
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I love working with my friends.
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I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
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Don't ever be afraid to step out and do something different.
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The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
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The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
