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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
"The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking."
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
"In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented."
"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."
"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."
"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."
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