The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it... view

By: Judy Davis

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I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution... view

By: Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked... view

By: Elizabeth Taylor

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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean... view

By: Ted Dexter

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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it... view

By: Tori Amos

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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not... view

By: Gertrude Stein

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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself... view

By: Allan Bloom

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For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!.. view

By: Jay Leno

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon... view

By: Jenny Weber

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It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come... view

By: Edward Zwick

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We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans... view

By: Rick Renzi

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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied... view

By: St. Jerome

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