Sally Field Quotes
Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.
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I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
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I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
