Ricardo Semler Quotes
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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To be happy, make other people happy.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me I can't go. I'm used to it.
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La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own.
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So much of the bitterness that the term 'McCarthyism' evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 - both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
