Margaret Heffernan Quotes

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Margaret Heffernan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LeadershipSadTravelYouLadderUp

The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.

Jerry Della Femina

PeopleAdvertisingBetterFeelYou

I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

Jennifer Egan

LiveNew YorkDoorWritingThink

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

Anna D. Shapiro

MomentExperiencePeopleThinkTell

I'm a competitive guy.

John Singleton

CompetitiveGuy

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler

LifeSadMeasureSometimesSorrow

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

Simon Pegg

WorkCharacterSaySeeSomething

A Brooks Brothers button-down with an unfastened collar, rolled-up sleeves, and jeans makes for a comfortable, casual look.

Roger Stone

LookComfortableCasualJeansCollar

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Mary Manin Morrissey

PatienceGodMyselfI AmChildDeep

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

Michael Mandelbaum

PoliticsControlEconomicsWorld

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

Loretta Lynch

PracticeLawLicenseViolate

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

Cory Monteith

FootballSchoolGameHigh SchoolWho

I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show.

Corey Stoll

SuperheroStartedSpider-ManStuff

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