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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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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Ye-es. Barkis is willin'.
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When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
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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.
