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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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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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've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.
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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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If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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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.
