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Terry Semel Quotes

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Terry Semel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1943

Topics

Myself Building Brand Better Company

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Joel Robuchon

Food I Am Honored Sensitive Fact Am

What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Know Resistance Opera Tell Idea

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

John le Carre

Day Man People Building Nostalgia

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Michael Greger

Heart Death People Pressure Blood

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

Merce Cunningham

Dance Action Body Image Length Span

Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Work Morning Deep Thought New Three

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Mary Astell

Men World Doubt Would None Marry

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

Character Literature Years Last Pope

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

Michael Ovitz

Trust Lesson First Company Being

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

Loren Eiseley

Tomorrow Us Before Achieved Lurks

A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

Joseph Altuzarra

Easy Skin Pieces About Accessibility

Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message.

Dianne Reeves

Character Voice You Feelings Want