Karl E. Weick Quotes
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The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I've never been a size 0.
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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.
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Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head
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I am pretty well retired, ... I run Slinger and Milwaukee and certain other shows. It's kind of like a hobby.
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The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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Confusion is not an ignoble condition.
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I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
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It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!
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What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.
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Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
