Kenny Rogers Quotes
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
Larry Wilmore -
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams -
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton -
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
Gary Player
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It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
Gary Hamel -
Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
Indra Nooyi -
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head -
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
Karan Johar -
I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
Taylor Sheridan
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
Ban Ki-moon -
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W. P. Kinsella -
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Rachael Harris -
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
Pat Barker -
We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
Bill Gates -
This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
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A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
H. L. Mencken -
There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
Carl Hagelin -
My music is inspired by where I am and what I'm feeling at the time. Traveling and meeting new people is also incredibly inspiring to me.
Amber Giles -
On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
Kevin Morby -
I feel like I learn something from everything I do.
Kenny Rogers