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• Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

  Etta James

  Baby, Real, Space

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• Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

  Tom Peters

  War, Winning, Leader

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• We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.

  Edward Stettinius, Jr.

  Jobs, Men, Engineering

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• I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Judging People, Long

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• I hate any match that isn't a traditional Tag Team Match or a traditional Singles Match, because anything can happen. It's truly one of those deals where it's all about being in the right place at the right time.

  John Cena

  Hate, Team, Tag

  "John Cena goes hands-on with 'WWE All Stars'". Interview with James Wortman, www.wwe.com. April 7, 2011.

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• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Light, Ideas

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• I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Shadow

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• i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Opposites, Style, Mind

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• The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

  Lewis Black

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

  Andy Warhol

  Interesting, Photographer, Wrong Things

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

  Bill Watterson

  Secret, Figures, Tricks

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• She said, "As long as we're with each other--" "We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.

  Jean Ferris

  Long, Said, Knows

  Jean Ferris (2004). “Once Upon a Marigold”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Dancer, Important, Used

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• If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

  Heidi Klum

  Passion, Heart, Ifs

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• The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

  Ray Kroc

  Success, Time, Congratulations

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

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• There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nice, Needs, Pieces

  "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Race, Giving

  The Summing Up

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• I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

  Mandy Moore

  Hug, Skirts, Pencils

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• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  Mandy Moore

  Florida, Musical, Singing

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• I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

  Michael Moore

  Hours In The Day, Enemy, Bucks

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• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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• I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Clark Gable

  Ohio, Lucky, Right Time

  "The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 67, 2004.

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• There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

  Lauren Conrad

  Hard Work, Passion, Dedication

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• Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Mean, Achieve

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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