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• Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

  James C. Collins

  Organization, Leader, Profile

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• Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

  Birdman

  Hard Work, Hands, Car

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• I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

  Andy Murray

  Car, Singing, Would Be

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

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• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

  Joan Caulfield

  Stars, Character, Voice

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

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• And sometimes it's fun to be the guy who just really enjoys it, like the guy I'm playing now on The Cape. He's more that. He's much more flashy and debonaire and devil may care-ish. He just loves doing bad in the world. That's real fun to do.

  James Frain

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Father, Ideas, House

  Sherwood Anderson (1968). “A story teller's story: a critical text”

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• That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Nerves, Gestures, Born

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Vanity, Illumination

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Teacher, Girlfriend

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• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Compassion, Secret

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• You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .” “Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly. “No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Voice, Gold

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• I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

  James Dyson

  Rich, Easy, Fascinating

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• You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Nice, Light, Giving

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.32, Melville House

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• Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey Fatone's last name was going to be “Fat One” no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Gay, Good Friend

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.68, Crown/Archetype

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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• Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

  Angus Young

  Fashion, Guitar, Should Have

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• You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

  Rose Byrne

  Magazines, Streets, Australian

  "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.

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• God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Writing, Years, Rivers

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• Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

  Matt Smith

  Names, Giving, Crayon

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• Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Hip Hop, Crowds, Hips

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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