Mickey Drexler Quotes

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.

Mickey Drexler

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If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

John Buford

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The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

John Tavener

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There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.

Tove Lo

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

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I was different and people made fun of me.

Judith Light

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I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.

Jason Kidd

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To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

Debra L. Reed

LeadershipBestPeopleMeThinkYou

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

Cory Gardner

BetterEnvironmentUnderstandOwn

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

Bonnie Hammer

WorkTodayJust BecauseWillMean

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

Ato Boldon

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By that sin fell the angels.

William Shakespeare

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The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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