James Costos Quotes

At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.

James Costos

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Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate - you can only put so many satellites up there. It's like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone builds the biggest thing they can put up there.

Jim Cantrell

BeachReal EstateYouRealProperty

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

Robert Gottlieb

WomenTodayWorldChoicesFindBig

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

Jeff Perry

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I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

Aneurin Barnard

LoveFightingDoingMy OwnShow Off

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

John Tavener

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There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

WritingMoreHiddenCancerBigIdea

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.

Tom Douglas

WifeStartProfitPriceGoTry

In skateboarding, you're never bigger than the streets.

Rob Dyrdek

YouNeverSkateboardingBiggerThan

I confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke, and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry, and if I'm not, I don't.

Diana Rigg

PeopleEatingWineSmokeWrongEat

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

Dee Rees

TrustBestPeopleStoryLongYou

I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

Christina Milian

SuccessFearMyselfPastYourself

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

ChristianMoreMovementThanAny

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