David Hepworth Quotes

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For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.

Jimmy Gomez

SonGreatParentsGenerationAmerica

A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.

Joe Lonsdale

LeadershipGrowthBestCultureTeam

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

Joel Edgerton

LifeMeWorldEndMy LifeLook

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

Meghan Daum

Moving OnMovingWritingWorldPoint

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

Robert Redford

TimeMeBetterWishNobodyKid

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Matthew Pearl

VillainBookNegativeStoryPowerful

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

Stefano Langone

MusicHopeMeVoiceFeelTrue

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

Robert Winston

PersonalityReligionBrainControl

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Michael Leunig

DeathYourselfSmallBetterYouSay

I can't make everybody happy.

Joyner Lucas

HappyMakeEverybody

Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.

Chris Kattan

TimeBusyPhoneNowListenRight

I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.

Clemence Poesy

LifeMeMy LifeRememberFirstKid

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