David T. Kearns Quotes
To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I was determined to be an actor and make a name in the industry, and hence, I did.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.
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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
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Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.
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That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
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To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.
