Staff Quotes - Page 24

• I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

  Mac DeMarco

  Mean, Night, Phoenix

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Book, Player

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

  Nat Hentoff

  Editors, Political, Males

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

  Noam Chomsky

  University Students, Choices, Climate

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  Barack Obama

  White, House, Decision

  Source: time.com

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• So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Helping, Enough

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Despite what some of my colleagues may have been reporting, I haven't seen anybody in my community accuse either yourself or anyone on your staff of being anti-Semitic.

  Donald Trump

  Community, May, Anti Semitic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  Felix Dennis

  Cash Flow, Mind, Mutiny

  "The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money".

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• I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

  Frans de Waal

  Zoos, Educational, Mean

  "Jump, Tiger, Jump!" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2007.

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• One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

  Robin Hobb

  Knives, Use

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.306, Spectra

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• UG staff is patching up wargs, and all surviving Guardians are tied up," Wraith said, "But they could probably use some medical attention. Especially the one dipshit with the idiotic Mohawk. He lost a lot of blood." "Because you ate him," Sin said wryly. Wraith blinked with exaggerated innocence. "Fighting makes me hungry.

  Larissa Ione

  Fighting, Blood, Attention

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• How'd you communicate?" "Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that" -- she waved at him--- "is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job

  Kelley Armstrong

  Jobs, Doors, Car

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• He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Night, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

  Smokey Robinson

  White, Firsts, Members

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• When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details.

  Demian Bichir

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• We are traveling on with our staff in hand... We are pilgrims bound for the heavenly land.

  Fanny Crosby

  Christian, Hands, Land

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• I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting.

  Helen Joseph

  Beautiful, Faith, White

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• When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

  Liberace

  Way, Cry, Reviews

  Liberace (1973). “Liberace: an autobiography”, Longman Canada

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• We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity.

  Paul Washer

  Broken, Humanity, Power Of God

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2013

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• These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Intellectual, Skins

  At the Gridiron Club dinner; quoted in National Review (16 April 2001).

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• To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.

  George Washington

  Military, Men, Skills

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.61

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• A devotional book, which takes a Scripture text, and so opens it for us in the morning - that all day long it helps us to live, becoming a true lamp to our feet, and a staff to lean upon when the way is rough - is the very best devotional help we can possibly have. What we need in a devotional book which will bless our lives - is the application of the great teachings of Scripture - to common, daily, practical life.

  J.R. Miller

  Morning, Book, Teaching

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• I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Father, Princess, Spoiled

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• If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

  John Ilhan

  Leadership, Jobs, Done

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