Beverly Engel Quotes
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
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Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
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I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
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I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.
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I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.
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But that noose is tightening as well, as is the noose in regards to Saddam Hussein.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
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The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.
