"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."

-- John Henry Patterson

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“During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.”
“Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.”
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
“Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.”
“The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.”
“The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.”
“I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.”

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