"An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands."

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John Wooden

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“Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.”
“I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.”
“I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.
“I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.”
“I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.”
“Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 41-42), 1982.

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