All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Related When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Intern... MARC ANDREESEN The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,... TERRY ZWIGOFF When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY What all people who are engaged in positions of responsibility at all companies need to understand i... MARK WELDON Some companies are under fire because they're run by people who are running the companies like a bus... MARC FRIEDFERTIG The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at pu... RICHARD CORLISS Everyone expected us to lose the game, but we knew we could run with those guys. JEFF PILON I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4. AUDRINA PATRIDGE You've got a lot of guys who can run 10.2, who can run 20.5 (in the 200), and we take that for grant... LEROY BURRELL The guys knew what we were up against and knew we had to get bonus points. JEFF WEATHERMAN Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they ... STEVE BLANK Back when the game was on Sega Genesis, it was hard to find competition. I dominated everyone I play... ISRAEL CHARLES Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All... JARED GOFF I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Unbelievable, ... It was one of those trades like, 'Who knew?' Guys in the National League knew what... DMITRI YOUNG I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions... SHERYL SANDBERG Man to God: "I've let you down so many times." God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I ... THE SKIT GUYS Basically, what it's doing is letting those guys who can run make the play. And they have linebacker... JEFF ROBINSON I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run. NIKKI SIXX We weren't expecting to do that at all. It was unexpected, but we knew we had the kids to do it, and... CHRIS LORDITCH We made a great run in the second half. We were right in the game, the guys played hard, and that's ... CRAIG FIELDS Same thing all year. These kids have hearts of lions. They worked their butts off. When we were down... JOSH HOOD Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that b... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Under the old world order, senior executives of companies that were most aggressive were the ones th... HOWARD SCHILIT I don't think Lula knew about this, but I feel deceived by all the people who were working for him, LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA It was kind of a second family for kids who were directly affected by it. With 100 guys together, it... ERIC PRICE I just knew that I had to run all the way through the line. It was a great field, and I knew that ev... MARSHEVET HOOKER I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly ... DAVE GIBBONS I wasn't going to come to some place where we were going to lose, ... I knew we were going to be goo... CUTTINO MOBLEY These were guys who just wanted to do the right thing. They were under this huge pressure. They were... GAIL BEGLEY This is why we're all in the game to run in races like this. These guys are sportsmen and this is re... GRAHAM MOTION These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out).... GUILLERMO VILAS The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on... MAHERSHALA ALI These guys are excellent. They have a good history of starting Internet-based companies. The draw wi... DAVID MEEKS Beau and Chance both did a great job. They made it through today without allowing an earned run betw... ERIC NIESLANIK Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of t... JAMES SUROWIECKI The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It'... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I knew a couple guys here, and it's a great atmosphere and environment. You're around people who bel... JASON BRAUN It is pointless to discuss today who will run and how. GARRY KASPAROV I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show wh... MARINA SIRTIS The smaller guys like Steve and Santana have really established that there's a place in this game fo... LARRY FITZGERALD Most of the executives of publicly held companies are on the job for five years and these companies ... DANNY MILLER By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was def... DAVID CROSBY Defenses in that league have got 11 guys who can run. The field shrinks. JOE NOVAK I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindber... KURT SUTTER We knew who the individual was. We knew the type of vehicle he was driving. He went by the location ... JAMES MURPHY I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, H... RUDYARD KIPLING It was just a weird game. Guys couldn't throw strikes, guys who probably haven't made an error all y... BILL PIONA All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, R... JENNIFER ARMENTROUT At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and som... CARLA KORBES I knew early we could run the ball. When we weren't successful throwing it, we went back to the run ... BRIAN KNIGHTON All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. CHARLES H. PARKHURST All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. C. H. PARKHURST All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. CHARLES HENRY PARKHURST It depends on who the guys are. I've heard Michael do it. Because everybody knew he tried to do ever... LARRY BROWN He knew our system so well. He knew what plays to run and what to stick with. DANNY MEDINA I knew it was going to happen. I think we all kind of knew because they generally will follow the au... DAVID GORE Companies are meeting expectations, but they are not beating expectations by a great amount, and I t... GIRI CHERUKURI I knew the guys were looking forward to this. I was encouraged by the way they stepped up. We just t... RON AVERILL They ran the offense very well. Their coach got those guys going. It's a military style how they run... JASON FONTENET We'd run if we noticed a man peeking in the window. We're not allowed to be seen by guys without (Is... DUAA HAMOUD He picked the wrong day, really, because those are the two biggest guys on the crew and that's who h... DON BRUNO Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting h... GEORGE BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha... GEORGE BURNS Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair GEORGE F. BURNS I'm having so much fun watching these guys have fun. What's incredible is they were bettering their ... BOB CUNEO I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. WOODY ALLEN My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in a... BRIAN DENNEHY It's a great run by Greg. The guys really wanted to win for him. We left him out there to give him a... DUSTY BAKER They all have skill ability. They are all guys who work hard and they have the respect of their team... BOB STOOPS We're definitely looking at a wave of guys coming back who will want to run. PAUL RIECKHOFF We knew they were aggressive on the offensive boards. We knew we had to run on them early. KAWIKA SHOJI Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to al... ELLA R. BLOOR We knew once the draw came out, if we were fortunate to get by Frankfort, there was a good chance we... ANDY WEAVER She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it, COLIN ANDERSON J.D. Christie is the man and we knew they would go to him at crunch time. We had a lot of guys that ... SEAN WILLIAMSON This was an amazing run, ... We just overcame a lot of stuff. The guys did an incredible job of keep... JIMMIE JOHNSON We knew we had a running game, but you have to give those guys up front and [assistant] coach Dan Gu... DOUG PHILLIPS The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up... EDMUND PHELPS When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden... GARY SHEFFIELD I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast g... EVE BABITZ Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. GEORGE F. BURNS These are the guys that make a difference when we're making our run for the CCS title. These guys ar... ARMANDO GONZALEZ Those who knew him remember how much his position and voice meant in difficult times when all the ch... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV We all know who the go-to guys are -- Shaq and D-Wade. ALONZO MOURNING Don't tell me about the Press. I know *exactly* who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by th... ANTONY JAY I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa... TOMMY DONBAVAND The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, b... MOHNISH PABRAI I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d... CHAD RIESSEN I thought defensively we did a good job. We knew they were going to shoot threes, and our guys all d... CHAD VAN RIESSEN We knew they were going to make a late run. But what I did, it was for my team. Plus all the support... BRANDON EVANS We have a federal management structure so each company runs itself. We have monthly meetings with co... DAMIEN FROST I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. ... RYAN REYNOLDS If companies can figure out what their failures are going to be and how they can make customers feel... KRISTEN DETIENNE That's what you need out of guys in playoff baseball. You need guys to come off the bench and get bi... BOBBY SMITH The companies that can quickly adapt their business models, product and service offerings, and indus... FRANK GENS A lot of guys were getting some good blocks out there. We talked to our offensive linemen this week,... LEON GRAVELY The world would run a lot smoother if more men knew how to dance. UNKNOWN
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RALPH GIBSON Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your f... RALPH MARSTON I'm not any more moral than my neighbors. RALPH WAITE Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o... RALPH WAITE 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off... RALPH WAITE The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on... RALPH WAITE I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a l... RALPH WAITE I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller. RALPH WAITE You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with. RALPH WAITE There is no truly global justice. RALPH STEADMAN Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes... 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RALPH REGULA Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se... RALPH RANSOM Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th... RALPH PETERS I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser... RALPH PETERS The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. RALPH PETERS Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar... RALPH PETERS Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent. RALPH PETERS Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available. RALPH PETERS Social peace requires reciprocity. RALPH PETERS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'... RALPH PETERS The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl... RALPH PETERS The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu... RALPH PETERS In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. RALPH PETERS My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly. RALPH NORMAN My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do ... RALPH NORMAN Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I t... RALPH NORMAN I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as c... RALPH NORMAN What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free p... RALPH NORMAN Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t... RALPH NORMAN My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy. RALPH NORMAN I am a businessman. RALPH NORMAN I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money. RALPH NORMAN Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ... RALPH NORMAN I believe in the free enterprise system. RALPH NORMAN John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it... RALPH NORMAN I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe... RALPH NORMAN If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes. RALPH NORMAN Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. RALPH NADER It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the... RALPH NADER I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and c... RALPH NADER This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies. RALPH NADER Power has to be insecure to be responsive. RALPH NADER Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas... RALPH NADER The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders. RALPH NADER Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. RALPH NADER The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf... RALPH NADER No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. RALPH NADER The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe... RALPH NADER John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b... RALPH NADER The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their... RALPH NADER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. RALPH NADER The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ... RALPH NADER If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. RALPH NADER If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p... RALPH MERKLE Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v... RALPH MERKLE Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific ... RALPH MERKLE One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resou... RALPH MERKLE One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m... RALPH MERKLE There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of ... RALPH MERKLE A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll... RALPH MERKLE Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today... RALPH MERKLE One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing... RALPH MERKLE We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost... RALPH MERKLE We see an entire planet which has many limitations. RALPH MERKLE If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most ... RALPH MERKLE The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an... RALPH MERKLE Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio... RALPH MERKLE If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your hea... RALPH MERKLE Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce fo... RALPH MERKLE Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a... RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power i... RALPH MERKLE Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true. RALPH MARSTON If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choos... RALPH MARSTON There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them... RALPH MARSTON Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how ... RALPH MARSTON The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is g... RALPH MARSTON Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you'... RALPH MARSTON Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to c... RALPH MARSTON Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. RALPH MARSTON Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each mo... RALPH MARSTON Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet ... RALPH MARSTON There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, ... RALPH MACCHIO Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied... RALPH MACCHIO I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a gre... RALPH MACCHIO The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together. RALPH MACCHIO Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't ha... RALPH LAUREN My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h... RALPH LAUREN I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I... RALPH LAUREN It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's no... RALPH LAUREN I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion v... RALPH LAUREN They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes... RALPH LAUREN I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought ... RALPH LAUREN I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. RALPH LAUREN I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream. RALPH LAUREN The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how the... RALPH LAUREN I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen. RALPH LAUREN My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... RALPH LAUREN You have to create something from nothing. RALPH LAUREN Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row. RALPH KINER All of his saves have come in relief appearances. RALPH KINER Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat. RALPH KINER I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact ... RALPH KINER If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. RALPH KINER The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. RALPH HODGSON When the country is at war, you need to support the president. RALPH HALL As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneur... RALPH HALL President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover... RALPH HALL I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That... RALPH HALL When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick. RALPH HALL I've always been conservative. I was born that way. RALPH HALL When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles. RALPH HALL I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've alwa... RALPH HALL It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ... RALPH HALL I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help ... RALPH HALL I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F... RALPH HALL Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, on... RALPH GIBSON One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am a... RALPH GIBSON First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally ... RALPH GIBSON When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ... RALPH FIENNES We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. RALPH FIENNES The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second. RALPH FIENNES I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people ... RALPH FIENNES I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it. RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. RALPH FIENNES So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and w... RALPH FIENNES Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a... RALPH FIENNES I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about som... RALPH FIENNES As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t... RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling. RALPH FIENNES I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ... RALPH FIENNES Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession ... RALPH FIENNES Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur. RALPH FIENNES I tried to play rugby but was never very good. RALPH FIENNES I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic... RALPH FIENNES There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve... RALPH FIENNES There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud... RALPH FIENNES God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten... RALPH FIENNES Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real. RALPH FIENNES Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. RALPH ELLISON There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. RALPH ELLISON Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. RALPH ELLISON The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and... RALPH ELLISON