Cecil O. Samuelson (Cecil Osborn Samuelson Jr.) Quotes
I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
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The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
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I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.
