Louise Brooks Quotes
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
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In my 20s, it was very hard to go, 'I'm heavier than that girl.' Getting older makes a huge difference.
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Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
