Dubilier Private Quotes & Sayings

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline. — Warren Buffett

What we're in is a vacuum. — Henning Mankell

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. — Alexander McQueen

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to. — Roy Ayers

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. — Sebastian Faulks

You like economics, don't you?' I asked.
'Everyone should know the basics,' said the Princess. 'Lasting peace will only be brought about through economic means - we should be trading with the Trolls rather than fighting them. — Jasper Fforde

I hope you can grow a third kidney, Drew," Erin says. "Because if Mathew, Jack and Steven ever need one at the same time, you're going to have to hand them over."
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"Book Jack a table at Scores this weekend. One me"
Nothing says thank you like a prepaid stripper. — Emma Chase

They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. — Philip K. Dick

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. — Og Mandino

Shakespeare should have prepared her. — Alice Munro

We're Jews. When you look at our pubic hair, it should look like Ewoks should be in there. — Jon Stewart