James Quincey Quotes
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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I was a religious 'SNL' watcher all through middle school. I was obsessed with Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri - they were on right when I found the show. Then I started watching the older episodes, and it just totally blew my mind that my dream show already existed.
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
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