Walter Wriston Quotes
Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.
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No matter how cold you are or how hungry you are, you might be warm tomorrow.
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One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
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When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.
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It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.
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I miss 'Mad Men,' but I can't complain because I got a lot of public awareness from it, and it led on to film offers such as 'Sherlock.'
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I’m trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.
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Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.
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Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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It seems he'd seen me in a play or plays.
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I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
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Love's stronger than fear and death.
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
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Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.
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Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.