Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable peopleWoody Guthrie
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn -
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein -
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon -
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton -
The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar -
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt -
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
Jack Welch -
That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
Edith Widder
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson -
If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.
Gary Hamel -
Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
Elizabeth Berg -
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.
Pauline Neville-Jones -
When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
Charles Duhigg -
The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.
Betty Gilpin
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
Robert Pozen -
There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.
Jeff Long -
I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.
Angela Davis -
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
Chuck Klosterman -
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
Woody Guthrie