Executives Quotes - Page 11

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

Jeff Tweedy

Shoes, Tennis, Trying

"'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.

Alexander Hamilton

War, Blessing, Distribution Of Power

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.410

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The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

Roger Sherman

War, President, Able

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[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.

Alexander Hamilton

War, Choices, Olive Branches

Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett, Jacob Ernest Cooke (1969). “Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor”

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Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

David Mamet

Stars, Character, Mean

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What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.

Howard Gordon

Character, Thinking, Voice

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Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Successful, Exercise, Thinking

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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

Tyne Daly

Cutting, Years, Play

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

George W. Bush

Humor, Law, Differences

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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Banksy

People, Mind, Graffiti

Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.

Ricky Van Veen

Watches, Needs, Pieces

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I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

Roger Goodell

Player, Decision, Clubs

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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

Quentin Bryce

Children, Government, Doors

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I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

Robert David Steele

Country, Evil, Republic

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Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

Kim Thayil

Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

John C. Maxwell

Decision, Inability, Failing

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I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

Monica Denise Brown

Keys, Bathroom, Minutes

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

Gabrielle

Book, Ideas, Black

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When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

Dick Gephardt

Order, President, Overcoming

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To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

Edmund Burke

Kings, Order, Law

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1537, Delphi Classics

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I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.

Emeril Lagasse

Dream, Encouragement, Queens

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The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

H. L. Mencken

Honesty, Men, Law

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Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Diablo Cody

Winter, Hollywood, Television

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Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

John F. Kennedy

Views, Issues, Political

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A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

Mark Twain

Spiritual, Race, Order

Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.772, Jazzybee Verlag

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