David Maister Quotes
I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
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Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.
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I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
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The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
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I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
