Awful Quotes - Page 19

• At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Jobs, College, Talking

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• TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  People, Add, Management

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road" by Edward Whitacre, Jr., www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  Fran Kranz

  Mean, Cabins, Woods

  "Fran Kranz on Dollhouse, Cabin In The Woods, and Much Ado About Nothing". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2012.

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• My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

  Carson Kressley

  Thinking, Helping Someone, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

  Kary Mullis

  Names, Mind, World

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• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  Emir Kusturica

  Art, Hollywood, Poison

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

  Emir Kusturica

  Basketball, Beautiful, Country

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• Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

  John Kluge

  Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Want

  "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

  Marian Keyes

  Who I Am, Stills

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• What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

  Joe Lhota

  Teamwork, Important, Emergencies

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• It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Brain, Might

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

  Sienna Miller

  Fashion, Jobs, Fun

  "Sienna Miller says she's changed her ways and she's happy to be single now". www.mirror.co.uk. August 03, 2009.

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• I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

  Dennis Lehane

  Golf, Play, Six

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• To be hungry must be awful.

  Dick Van Patten

  Hungry

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• For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

  Michael Parkinson

  Thinking, Want, Sabotage

  "Robbie Williams admits booze battle". www.cnn.com. April 9, 2001.

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• I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

  Trevor Phillips

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

  Crystal Reed

  Party, My Boyfriend, Prom

  "When I Was 17: Crystal Reed". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2012.

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• In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

  Pete Rozelle

  Player, Clubs, Facts

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• I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

  Ted Rall

  Default, Cartoonist, Editorials

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• New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  New York, Wonderful, Wonderful Places

  "'You have to make sure things don't go to your head'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Writing

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• I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Book, Magazines

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• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Doors, Editors, Want

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• My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

  Zachary Levi

  School, Tomorrow, Middle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

  James Mangold

  People, Lucky, Able

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