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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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
Vince McMahon
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Larry Craig
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
Dale Earnhardt
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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.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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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.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Harold Hamm
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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.
Vera Wang
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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.
Ed Koch
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
Daniel Bell
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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.
Ogden Nash
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush
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I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
Colin Hanks
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
J. C. Chandor
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I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.
Jason Mraz
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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.
Bernie Brillstein