Bernard Ebbers Quotes

#1. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet

Maureen O'Hara

#2. There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

#3. I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

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#4. I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

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#5. Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

David Bowie

#6. I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from
it.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#7. Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

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#8. I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

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#9. The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation.

Ellen Key

#10. We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

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#11. I didn't have anything to apologize for.

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#12. If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

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#15. I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

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#16. The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

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#17. We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

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#18. Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Andrew Vachss

#19. I used practically all the money I had available.

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#20. People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited about guys like that but I can't get too excited about it because I think he's sorta useless. He's just sitting there in India under a blanket looking beautiful, so what.

Brad Warner

#21. We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

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#22. I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

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#23. I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

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#24. We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

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#25. I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

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#26. One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Pam Houston

#27. You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?

Kim Stanley Robinson

#28. Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#29. The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

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#30. I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

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#31. I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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#32. I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

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#33. Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

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#34. For someone to believe in you, is always the best feeling in the world

Lauren Jauregui

#35. I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

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