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The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.
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Teresa Wright
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
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George Woodberry
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
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Charles Wilson
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The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
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Bill Williams
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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Alfred Whitehead
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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
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Donald Westlake
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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Sam Walton
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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
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Donald Trump
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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Harry Truman
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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
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Marlo Thomas
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I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.
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Jeremy Sumpter
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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
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James Stockdale
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I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
Author:
Tony Shalhoub
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Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
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Bob Schieffer
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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
Author:
Mark Sanford
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Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Donald Rumsfeld
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I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
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Gavin Rossdale
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
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Henry Rollins
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Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
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Elisabeth Rohm
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Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.
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Frank Robinson
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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Ted Rall
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We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
Author:
Sonny Perdue
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Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
Author:
John Passos
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Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
Author:
James Murray
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I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Author:
Hayao Miyazaki
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No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
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Groucho Marx
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While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
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Jay London
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To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
Author:
Doris Lilly
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I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.
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Judith Light
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Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
Author:
Alex Lifeson
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Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
Author:
James Levine
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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
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Doug Larson
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It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.
Author:
Artie Lange
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The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
Author:
Bill Kurtis
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That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
Author:
Jimmy Kimmel
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We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
Author:
Craig Johnston
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
Author:
Gabriel Heatter
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Author:
Gabriel Heatter
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Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
Author:
Robert Greenleaf
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I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
Author:
Frank Gifford
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We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.
Author:
Frank Gifford
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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
Author:
Carlos Ghosn
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Author:
Bill Gates
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Author:
Robert Frost
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Author:
Robert Frost
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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Harrison Ford
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He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
Author:
William Feather
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Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Author:
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
Author:
David Eddings
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We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
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Bernie Ebbers
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I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
Author:
Gregg Easterbrook
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OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
Author:
Ruby Dee
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Author:
Bobby Darin
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It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
Author:
Evan Dando
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New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
Author:
Andrew Cuomo
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It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
Author:
George Cukor
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Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
Author:
Mark Cuban
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Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
Author:
Simon Cowell
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It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Author:
Mary Cheney
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I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
Author:
Leo Burnett
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Author:
Ken Blanchard
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Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.
Author:
Jimmy Black
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First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
Author:
Jimmy Black
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My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.
Author:
Charles Beckwith
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Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.
Author:
John Ashcroft
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In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.
Author:
John Abizaid
