William Hartung Quotes
The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows.
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The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.
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Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
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The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
