Walter Kiechel Quotes

People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happen. Not so. As the strategy revolution demonstrated, ideas can be the key tools for making your business competitive.

Walter Kiechel

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  Ian Anderson
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• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

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• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

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• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
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• My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

  

  B. B. King
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• People love gentle larceny.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.

  

  Valerie June
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• We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
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• I never spent much time with people my own age.

  

  David Karp
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• Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you look back at the eight years. But there was a lot of good, too.

  

  James Carville
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• We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

  

  Colin Mochrie
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• I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

  

  Katharine Susannah Prichard
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• As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
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• I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
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• When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

  

  Marion Cotillard
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• I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

  

  James Garner
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• People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happen. Not so. As the strategy revolution demonstrated, ideas can be the key tools for making your business competitive.

  

  Walter Kiechel
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  • Revolution