John Sununu Quotes

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

John Sununu

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I remember hearing that when Judi Dench was starting out at the Old Vic, she used to stand by the side of the stage watching the actors around her, and I can see why: That is where you really learn!

Jessie Buckley

StandLearnRememberYouI CanWhy

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

Joan Rivers

WorkFirePeopleMeBookCare

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

Jesmyn Ward

MeWriteOverUniversityImprove

When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

Jerry Lewis

MeBedWillHospitalStayWorking

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

Andrew Sullivan

SpaceArgumentCreateGoingMiddle

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Jeanne Moreau

TruthDayPeopleNightGoMoral

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

John T. Chambers

LifeLeadershipFocusMistakesI Am

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Stephen Sondheim

MusicMathLevelSureConscious

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Sugar Ray Leonard

LifePeopleSkillUpMineJust

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.

Tracy Chapman

MusicCreativityPeopleDownRock

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

Tracy Letts

FearHopeGreatTimeMeSinging

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

Chris Kirkpatrick

GoodDinnerThinkDirtyPlaceEat

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