P. T. Barnum Quotes
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Act because you love to act.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.
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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
