I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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TALIB KWELI Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
PAUL WALKER Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
HANNAH STORM Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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TA-NEHISI COATES I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti...
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CHARLES FULLER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE AZNAR I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE MARIA AZNAR Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.
RUPERT GRAVES To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or fri...
BRENDA SONG Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's...
NATALIE GOLDBERG Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin...
CAMERON RUSSELL Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center...
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ALAN ROGERS I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you ar...
CLINT EASTWOOD Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whet...
DONALD JOHANSON A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disr...
MOLLY CRABAPPLE What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether ...
TANYA ROBERTS The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you'r...
ANDY SERKIS Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you...
KEVIN SYSTROM Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don...
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KEN ROBINSON If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity...
KEN ROBINSON A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I...
SIMONE BILES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everyt...
VENUS WILLIAMS I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear ...
MARY ELLEN MARK I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what the...
ESTELLE PARSONS Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or ...
SANDRA E. PETERSON A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now an...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if...
LIZ TROTTA Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude i...
PAULO COELHO I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling...
PETE DU PONT My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. ...
JOHN LENNON Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to...
JOEL OSTEEN called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because o...
COTTON FITZSIMMONS I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word w...
CAM NEWTON I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verba...
ROZ CHAST I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the...
MICHAEL MADSEN I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a...
ALEXANDER SIDDIG What is hard for us to understand well, and hard for me to explain to Secretary (of State Colin) Pow...
JOSEPH PRUEHER It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that...
ELIZABETH PENA I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
MICHAEL MCSHANE I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
FRAN LEBOWITZ It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to peop...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ...
RIAN JOHNSON Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social ins...
FELICIA DAY I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the ot...
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are comin...
ELLEN STOFAN Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the l...
KELLY WEARSTLER They came in with a can do attitude whether they could or not. They always said yes.
FRANK WILLIS The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for tha...
DAVID STEINBERG Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wan...
EMILY VANCAMP He is doing absolutely everything right. I can't think of a missed shot he hit, really. ... It was a...
ZACH JOHNSON In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to ...
NATALIE MASSENET I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in l...
CARRIE ANN INABA Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseb...
BROOKS ROBINSON I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether y...
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CASPAR WEINBERGER People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
MARTHA PLIMPTON Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether...
LEIGHTON MEESTER Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a sti...
HOWARD SCHULTZ I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whet...
HARRY STYLES I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to re...
HAMILTON JORDAN I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, ...
DONNA KARAN I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always t...
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SALLY QUINN To be honest, I've always been really interested in the role of the host, whether it's our k...
ANDY BIERSACK I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?&...
HALLE BERRY There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a ...
GARY GYGAX Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story th...
TOM HIDDLESTON I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do ...
LEELEE SOBIESKI I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules than merely and blindly obeys the s...
ANUJ SOMANY Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration exc...
DONALD RUMSFELD I don't think I'm old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would ...
SANIA MIRZA Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role ...
BRADLEY WHITFORD I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never kn...
WIZ KHALIFA You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's imp...
DEREK JETER Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it...
BRIT MARLING When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a fo...
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COLIN POWELL very sober, chilling message.
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COLIN POWELL if your life is not better.
COLIN POWELL We must keep moving forward.
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COLIN POWELL there are no arms deal with Iran so far.
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COLIN POWELL No one has any evidence to the contrary, ... should not jump to such hasty conclusions.
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COLIN POWELL First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it
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COLIN POWELL All the options you can imagine are before us.
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COLIN POWELL Remain calm. Be kind.
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COLIN POWELL We will be with you in this current crisis and in the future,
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COLIN POWELL We know that there are occasions that arise when terrorists are coming in, and we know a bomb is hea...
COLIN POWELL there was reason for guarded optimism. And let us be clear about what brought it all to a halt -- te...
COLIN POWELL There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfe...
COLIN POWELL I for one am not going to apologize that somehow we took Saddam Hussein out and we're putting in a d...
COLIN POWELL It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL seeing some convergence of views.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
COLIN POWELL The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
COLIN POWELL the level of a mammoth new campaign.
COLIN POWELL We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
COLIN POWELL Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
COLIN POWELL