Wayne Huizenga Quotes

By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.

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• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Never
  • Try

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Book
  • Me
  • Childhood

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • Sorry
  • Aesthetic

• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Reward
  • Diet

• YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Three
  • Content
  • YouTube

• I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Career

• By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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