Brenda Barnes Quotes
The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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I'm a pacifist by nature.
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I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.
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I'm very sensitive to smells.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.
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You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
