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Gordon Bethune Quotes

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1941

Topics

Business Balance Judge Fix Company

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.

Work Love American Dream Happy Free

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anna Deavere Smith

Work Hard Work Heart Listening You

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came across as the biggest doofus. Literally, I was, like, bowing to him.

Growing Up Growing Know Him Always

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Woman I Am Win Lose Sometimes Who

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

Good You Can Do It Think You I Think

I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through with his Secret Service detail. The manager pulled me aside, and they didn't want me to shake Jimmy Carter's hand because they were afraid it would make the news if I stole from him.

Service Me Detail Vegas News Want

I want all my films to do well.

Want Well Films

It's tougher to work with Amaal, as the brother equation comes in between. We fight like any other siblings and have creative differences. I work harder when I am singing for him, as he is a taskmaster.

Work Creative Fight I Am Brother

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Woman You Mean Being Wanted Stopped

I've played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression. If that's what you're working on when you're doing a scene, then your focus is on the wrong thing.

Focus Think Doing You Wrong Try

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

Work Dimensions Four Photographs

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.

You I Can Hollywood Will False Well

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