Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes
Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.
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When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.
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It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
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'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.
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If you tell your story well, it can help attract customers; it can help people understand your business better, and you are more approachable as a business and a company.
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I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.
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In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
