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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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