"If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people"

-- Ralph Siu

#People Quotes #Reorganization Quotes #Ethics Quotes

“Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.”
“One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.”
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.”
“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
“There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.”
“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”
“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.”
“To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.”

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