Les Wexner Quotes
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common — not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons.
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I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.
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On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
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Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
