Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.
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Related Man to God: "I've let you down so many times." God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I ... THE SKIT GUYS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestima... CAROL LOOMIS Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones ... DAVID WONG It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most... MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best. ED PERLMUTTER Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. BOB GELDOF It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life expe... MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b... ANUJ SOMANY Individual grievances and pet peeves have got to go by the wayside. Generally, you don't have to wor... WALT ALSTON I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I... MOSES MALONE We are not recommending a merger with a small portal. Carl Icahn ... reserves the right to disagree ... BRUCE WASSERMAN The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings... ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings... ALDOUS HUXLEY A couple of guys didn't have their best stuff, but all the guys wrestled well tonight. These were tw... JEFF HICKOK I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence. CARLY RAE JEPSEN Guys like that are at a little disadvantage, playing against guys who have been under the gun their ... BOB GILDER Your best wrestlers aren't the ones who are going to win the dual for you. It's the guys that didn't... JAKE MADIGAN It's tough losing all those guys and a coach, too, but we support all their decisions and wish them ... GLEN MILLICAN typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not ... SEAN AVERY That was a nice job on the boards by our guys. An emotional game like this goes in spurts and our gu... DOUG BURGE does its best assessment of who are the bright new boys or girls in the beginning phase of their car... ETIENNE DAVIGNON In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most cr... DON YAEGER It's not like those other guys are plumbers -- not that I've got anything against plumbers. They wer... SKIP PROSSER The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate... OLIVER GASPIRTZ the best teachers are not always the ones in the classroom some time its the people you meet in your... MARK IBRAHIM This team is not soft. We've got guys who have a little edge about them, and you like that. DARRELL ARMSTRONG Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It ha... NEIL GAIMAN The mid-tier guys are the ones who would have been more at risk. Now, a lot of mid-tier guys are goi... BEN DOGRA You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotag... RICHIE NORTON These guys are great guys and they're going to understand that I'm a great guy, too. They're going t... GLEN MILLER In reality, the guys who pretty much won it were between 195 and 210 [pounds]. Those guys are pretty... BRAD MCDONALD I don't get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art ... TRAVIS SCOTT Those two guys really did a nice job on the boards and protecting the lane. Matt's been guarding the... DEAN BELLANTI The older guys have been the ones who have performed the best, so how do you move them on? RICKY PONTING [Unlike previous Ryder Cup captains who have stressed that being the captain is their sole role, Tom... TOM LEHMAN I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. GEORGE A. ROMERO That's what you need out of guys in playoff baseball. You need guys to come off the bench and get bi... BOBBY SMITH Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best o... SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT The ones who preach most about love are often the same ones who refuse to love the unlovable. FATHOM I had to put myself to the side and focus on the other guys. It was tough at first, but now that I'v... BRANDON KIMBROUGH Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always ... HARRY SHEARER I'm not too surprised that some of the better wrestlers struggled today, because guys can really get... DEREK SCOTT There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forge... CLINT EASTWOOD Very, very pleased. The guys are playing solid. You can always go lower, but I've got six guys there... JAY BAUER Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys. DANNY TREJO I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST That took its toll toward the end of the season. This year we have a lot more guys to give us depth.... SHELDEN WILLIAMS The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its am... WALT WHITMAN I want Carl Icahn to accelerate what they have started and spin out cable. Cable is a utility, not c... JAMES MCGLYNN In her experience, there were only two kinds of guys: the ones into sports and the ones into video g... VICTORIA KAHLER Luke and Christian didn't try to do too much with their hitting. Some of the guys are pressing too h... JOEY KALMUS The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not compla... CRISS JAMI [On the Spurs] It was like they’ve been playing all season. They have a tough defense, they dig in... PAU GASOL Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r... GARY F EVANS... For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter... GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter... BERNARD HOLLAND Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi... J.D. SALINGER That's where things started wrong. Guys came in here worried about themselves instead of the team. A... RASHARD LEWIS The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the... INGRID BENGIS I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too. LAURA PREPON I was working out and I was already done for two weeks. It was a great experience playing with all t... ZACH PARISE The ball was rolling well, but it was soggy and soft. It was tough for the guys up front to cut. But... SHALRIE JOSEPH A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the ... PAUL AUSTER The contract manufacturers, the component manufacturers, the guys that build the boards and the part... DHARMO SOEJANTO While he is doing that the rest of the guys are playing great too. I have gone with a new goalkeeper... ALLAN RICE I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Bosses shape how people spend their days and whether they experience joy or despair, perform well or... ROBERT I. SUTTON What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos... JON FAVREAU We have to keep things going in the right direction now. I like how we are playing. The guys are goi... JOE KUHN I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve... AARON KATZ Instead of going that (free agent) way, we're bringing in younger guys who are capable of playing no... CRAIG RIVET Politics is where the nature of man is shown and where a man's instincts are know. The ideas and the... C. LIDE SANGTAM I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they... TORI AMOS A key for us in the past week is that we're getting more consistency from guys in the lineup, ... Ay... JEFF WEAVER We have some guys who are ranked, but nobody expects any of them to be that guy on top of the podium... DAVE VANDEVEEGAETE I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the be... BEN STEIN We have to win the tough ones to win the dual. Our guys did a good job. You have to get on a roll to... JIM ZALESKY We're just 14- and 15-year-old guys playing against juniors and seniors, and these guys are just ste... MIKE COX If you look at my stats, its probably my best spring. The guy who's playing good is the guy who's go... AARON MILES Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c... WOODROW WILSON Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are c... CHARLES DICKENS I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying ... BRUCE MCCULLOCH Each game is its own entity. One week, your guys can be really outstanding. The next week, it's like... BOB CASULLO Believe it or not, we had fun playing the game, too. And I don't see that so much anymore. It's grea... HARMON KILLEBREW I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like t... LANCE HENRIKSEN Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, ... DWYANE WADE He looked like Barry. He's just the fourth guy in their lineup, just as dangerous as a lot of other ... STEVE TRACHSEL It's unique from most shows ... They'll give comic relief to the audience. It's an act in its own. T... JAY PATEL I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of m... WILLIE NELSON It's like, OK, we're playing the game and those guys are upstairs doing whatever they are doing, MIKE HOLMGREN They were out of their minds tonight. They were clicking on all cylinders. They have the eighth and ... DICK DIENER The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. ... JACK NICKLAUS We've been playing well, and we got some guys at the middle of the season who have helped us. IVAN DEJESUS Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into th... KEVIN HASSETT Carl is on the road and has multiple interviews set this week and into next week. A lot of guys are ... BOB MOORE When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go fo... JEFF GORDON I'm very proud of the guys. They kept their composure in tough moments and were very mentally prepar... JOVAN VAVIC Obviously the player can enjoy pure action by beating up the bad guys but at the same time, comedy s... ATSUSHI INABA Marcus Slaughter and Brandon Heath. Those are the guys coaches have talked about, and the ones we ha... BROCK REICHNER
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CARL SAFINA Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and... CARL SAFINA If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&... CARL SAFINA If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn'... CARL SAFINA With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can. CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu... CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. CARL ROGERS When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. CARL ROGERS In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p... CARL ROGERS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi... 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