W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Accept loss forever.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
