W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
