Walter Wriston Quotes
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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I've written poetry most of my life.
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A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.
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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
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There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
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I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.
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Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
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All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.
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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
