"The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board."

-- Virginia Knauer

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“I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.”
“For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.”
“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.180, Penguin
“When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.”
“A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.”
“I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.”
“Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.”

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