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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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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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 think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
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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.
