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.
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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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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
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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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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!
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Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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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.
