Sam Wyly Quotes

#1. Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

Sam Wyly

#2. I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

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#3. People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

Hannah Kent

#4. I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

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#5. I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

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#6. Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Sam Wyly

#7. I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

Sam Wyly

#8. The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

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#9. I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Kate DiCamillo

#10. Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

Sam Wyly

#11. wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. She

Veronica Roth

#12. Change, like healing, takes time. Evelyn

Veronica Roth

#13. A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#14. In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

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#15. Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

Elizabeth Fry

#16. Because I can't stay away.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Steven Spielberg

#18. I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

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#19. The purpose of a business is to create customers.

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#20. She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

Kim Cormack

#21. I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.

Philippos Syrigos

#22. Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

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#23. I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

Alan Thicke