Delivery Quotes

• The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

  George Gerbner

  Numbers, People, Cost

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Reading, Book, Ideas

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving, Drug, Wonder Woman

  "The biggest mother of them all" by John Lyttle, www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 1996.

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  If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  Lars Ulrich

  Morning, Fun, Boys

  "Skynyrd, Sabbath, Blondie join rock's elite". The Associated Press, www.today.com. March 14, 2006.

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• In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

  Joichi Ito

  Discovery, People, Waiting

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• Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

  Curtis LeMay

  Years, Chinese, Situation

  "Mission with LeMay: My Story". Book by Curtis E LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor, p. 561, 1965.

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• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  Nathan Deal

  Nursing, Opportunity, Years

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• When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

  Whitney Houston

  Emotional, Deep Within, Heard

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• My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

  Brooke Shields

  Pain, Father, Stress

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• PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Future, Practice

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.189, University of Georgia Press

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• I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Grace, Addresses, Return

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Innovation, Creation, Marketplace

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• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Roger Wicker

  Country, School, Safety

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• I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Media, Marketing

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• We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

  Kenneth Lay

  Use, Economy, Food Supply

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• I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

  Diane Lane

  Art, Risk, Hollywood

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• Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

  Jim Ryun

  Leaving, Levels, Care

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• There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

  Paul Reiser

  Dope, Men, Guy

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• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  C. Everett Koop

  Mean, Target Audience, Ordinary

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• I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Records, Way

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  Mandy Patinkin

  People, Trying, Quality

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• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Yale, Order

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• But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Achieve, Method

  Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Trying, Lines

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