Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

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As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

AgeGrowGetOlderOurAnecdotes

I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love such passionate songs as 'Not for You,' 'Wishlist,' and 'Long Road.'

Robert Hilburn

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By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Steve Erickson

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We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

Sissy Spacek

ControlBelieveNeverBeenEvenOur

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

Tony Abbott

PeopleTeamAustraliaComeJoin

You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.

Robert Boswell

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Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.

Ronen Bergman

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I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Jonah Goldberg

CoolThinkBetterPresidentThan

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

Chris Noth

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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Brian Grazer

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We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.

Ariel Sharon

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I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

William Mapother

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