Chuck Thompson Quotes
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
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Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!
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'What happened?''Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?' She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play.
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I've worked around the world.
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Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.
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Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
