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Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got an attitude, man, and I love it, and that's what we need.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came before.

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.