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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: 1645 - 1696

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Friendship Friends Long Two Little

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had.

Attitude Best Book Ownership Because

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Money Mom Little Lived Used Would

People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?'

Robert Kiyosaki

People Rich You Say Want Question

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Steven Millhauser

Moment River Me Story End First

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

Michael Shermer

Life Business Serious Employment Any

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

Stars Children School Classmates

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Remember Tongue Bad Circumstances

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Football Body Bone Involved Got Get

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Car Great Team Dream Soccer Country

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Change Energy America Problem Penny

It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.

Voice Present Doing You Everything

I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.

Myself Want Possible Authentic

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