Michael Heisley Quotes

I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

Michael Heisley

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For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

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My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

Amy Chua

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I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.

Shooter Jennings

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Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

Tom Verica

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Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Roger Daltrey

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Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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In this business, you can come and go in a second.

Chevy Chase

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Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.

Clara Shih

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I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

Annie Potts

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It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

Winona Ryder

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Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

William P. Leahy

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I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack

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