Allen Neuharth Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.
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Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.
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While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
