Alan Patricof Quotes

I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.

Alan Patricof

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Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

John Grisham

ChildhoodWritingStartDreamWrite

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

Andre Holland

LoveFirstFirst LoveShakespeare

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

John Oliver

DownPersonKnowEmpireBritishGet

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

Stephen Kinzer

DeathWashingtonSentenceOrthodoxy

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

Stephen Sondheim

ManSchoolNew YorkLovedNewBeen

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

Simon Mainwaring

ChangePeopleEnvironmentalWorld

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity!

Ming Xi

LoveGirlHairBlackThinkSuits

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Dolores Ibarruri

BetterGuiltyPersonGoThan

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

Dean Kamen

HistoryQualityPeopleHealthcare

I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.

Courtney A. Kemp

I AmPeopleColorWhiteSayWrite

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Conrad Hall

LightSunFar AwaySourceBecause

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Claire Danes

YourselfProblemsYouMoreSeeThan

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