Mike Patton Quotes
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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I enjoy not knowing everything about a musician I like. At a time when you can find out a popstar's favourite animal, I think it's more exciting not to know. I just don't want to tell everyone everything.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
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I was surprised at how slow Froch was. We were able to beat him to the punch.
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Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
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Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
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I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
