Sam Wyly Quotes
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.
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There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Physical qualities don't really matter much.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
