Leon Jouhaux Quotes
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
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I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was 'I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies.'
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I've always been a huge family person. Growing up with such a huge family, it was just amazing, so coming home to that is always awesome and... it makes me happy.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
