Margaret Heffernan Quotes

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Margaret Heffernan

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GreatCreativityYouNobodyWant

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Joel Kinnaman

UglyBehaviorYouPersonClassMost

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

IntelligenceWarPeopleBetterDumb

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Robert Goulet

ChangeRelaxI CanWantMoodTalk

One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.

Jeff Baena

PeopleInterestingLiteratureKind

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

Stanislav Grof

LiteratureYouPsychedelicNatural

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Roger Daltrey

LifeRestThoughtMy LifeLostDead

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Molly Ivins

BelieveThreeI BelieveTwoYears

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Liza Minnelli

LiveMoviePerformerTheatrical

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

Lisa Hannigan

KnowAlwaysSingerNaturalBeen

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Colin Firth

DoingYouDreamWillTellSomething

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Bryant H. McGill

SuccessLoyaltyMenWithinHearts

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Susan Sontag

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