William S. Knudsen Quotes
A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
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If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.
