Whitney Tilson Quotes

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.

Whitney Tilson

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I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.

Jochen Zeitz

ForwardLongI CanImagineWell

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

John Connolly

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Sun Tzu

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Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Steven Bochco

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My brother and I moved out to Hollywood initially to be a band, and where we lived, there was crime all over with my brother and I being the victims sometimes.

Troy Duffy

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My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Toni Tennille

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People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

Mary J. Blige

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I don't size up their grades or their board scores. Because in America today, that's just an advantage certain people have. I size up the give and take, the speed of thinking, what I perceive as ambition. I say, 'Tell me about your high school jobs.' And I love people who worked in coffee shops who were waiters and waitresses.

Mickey Drexler

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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

Jason Alexander

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My only weapon is the question.

Jorge Ramos

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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

Dick Van Dyke

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You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

Douglas Hofstadter

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