Bernie Brillstein Quotes
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,Such as fating us to spend the first part of our livesbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last partbeing embarrassed by our childer.
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Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name?Your way and my way seem to be one and the same, child.Mamma don't understand it.She wants to know where I've been.I'd have to be some kind of natural born foolTo want to pass that way again.But I could feel itOn a country road.
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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I am wholesome.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
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Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
