Alice Walton Quotes
One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.
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In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.
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One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
