W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.
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Socialism values equality more than liberty.
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Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
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We are here to make another world.
