Colin Cotterill Quotes
But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.Colin Cotterill
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
N. Murray Edwards -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
Val Kilmer -
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
Dance should mean something to you.
Damian Woetzel -
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
M. K. Hobson -
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
Adam Cohen -
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
Ralph Fiennes -
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
Vik Muniz -
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.
Uwe Boll -
Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
W. Clement Stone -
So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.
Wallace Stevens -
Damn right I like the life I live, 'cause I went from negative to positive.
The Notorious B.I.G. -
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
David Ricardo
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I personally love Essie because they're such a good brush, and it's so easy to apply. I always go red. If I'm in doubt, I go red.
Ana Ivanovic -
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
Nina Conti -
And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
Umberto Guidoni -
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
Kate Beckinsale -
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Jack Levine -
But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
Colin Cotterill