W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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You're measured by championships no matter what.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
