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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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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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.
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You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.