Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol'… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one…This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in… — Klay Hall Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we're… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The right response when, in the army, you are given an unlawful order, is to refuse that order. The right response of… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it… — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right… — DeVon Franklin Copy Share Image
The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amount… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different… — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
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