Bob DuPuy Quotes

It's like rain delays, ... That's in the province of the commissioner's office. It's to prevent someone from getting what they perceive is an advantage. The roof is designed for weather, not for competitive advantage. It's not like watering the baselines.

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• I think that living in Indonesia also reminded me how big the world is, you know, I've... Indonesia such a big country, such a diverse country and so many different people there and it reminded me that we have to have a broad view of the world and recognize that we all are interconnected and that's very important...

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Good
  • Long
  • City

• If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Political
  • Action

• Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

  

  Alice Waters
  • House
  • Food

• Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • People
  • Experience
  • Moments

• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  

  John Dryden
  • Song
  • Heaven
  • Ambition

• From wine what sudden friendship springs!

  

  John Gay
  • Friendship
  • Wine

• If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book
  • Pain
  • Betrayal

• And ninety-nine percent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences. We’re just built that way.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Wise
  • Smart

• There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.

  

  Jonathan Tucker
  • Awesome

• All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Country
  • Terrorism
  • Defeat

• If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Woman
  • Choose
  • Vote

• George Lindsay who played Goober thought Andy Griffith Show limited his career.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • Career
  • Played

• If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • Rain
  • Desert
  • Fruit

• Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Feelings
  • Answers
  • Shame

• It's like rain delays, ... That's in the province of the commissioner's office. It's to prevent someone from getting what they perceive is an advantage. The roof is designed for weather, not for competitive advantage. It's not like watering the baselines.

  

  Bob DuPuy
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