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“I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?”
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“Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.”
Source : Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”
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“I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.”
Source : "Fictional character: Count Saknussem". "Journey to the Center of the Earth", www.imdb.com. 1959.
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“History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?”
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“I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went, 'Wow, it's not me!'”
Source : "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. June 10, 2006.
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“I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.”
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“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”