If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not
excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business
for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?.
Robert Townsend
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They are treated as personnel, not people. ROBERT TOWNSEND The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. ROBERT TOWNSEND Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to loo... ROBERT TOWNSEND If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profi... ROBERT TOWNSEND Flooded vehicles are sometimes cleaned up by unscrupulous sellers without disclosure of flood damage... ROBERT TOWNSEND The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it wi... ROBERT TOWNSEND "Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong ... ROBERT TOWNSEND Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience. ED TOWNSEND If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey. ED TOWNSEND Democracy is not about one party dominating. 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I had no idea how much of it was secondhand. PETER TOWNSEND I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. SUE TOWNSEND I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love... SUE TOWNSEND They need to see the court better on offense. They could also work on playing together better. ALICIA TOWNSEND Since we didn't have a tournament this year, that game was like our tournament. The girls were excit... ALICIA TOWNSEND This group's strength was the ability to improve. They continuously learned and got better. ALICIA TOWNSEND They lost to the eighth-grade boys. They played that game some afternoon for a little fun. ALICIA TOWNSEND They're probably not spending enough. BRIAN TOWNSEND I agree, from an urban design point of view, that surface parking lots can break up streetscapes, ..... BRIAN TOWNSEND It will be interesting to see how it plays out, BRIAN TOWNSEND Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographi... BRIAN TOWNSEND Swimming is individual-oriented. We encourage all swimmers to go for their personal best as opposed ... BRIAN TOWNSEND When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'... SUE TOWNSEND I am the world's worst diabetic. SUE TOWNSEND Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas. MARCHIONESS TOWNSEND Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the ... TOWNSEND WHELEN The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. SUE TOWNSEND We're happy to pass on this decrease to our customers. ANGIE TOWNSEND The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses danc... SUE TOWNSEND To suggest, however, that Pocahontas worshipped the white man, abandoned her people, or loved John S... CAMILLA TOWNSEND We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... SUE TOWNSEND When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told tha... TOWNSEND HARRIS 'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have g... SUE TOWNSEND As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with oth... TOWNSEND HARRIS Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this ... TOWNSEND HARRIS The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed,... TOWNSEND HARRIS Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure. SUE TOWNSEND I flipped open my Nextel, went to Shane's number, dialed it, and Shane said, 'Hello?' 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The thing that changed this ... FRANCES TOWNSEND the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of d... FRANCES TOWNSEND It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, FRANCES TOWNSEND We must be unanimous in our strong condemnation of such state sponsorship of terrorism and demand it... FRANCES TOWNSEND When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its ... FRANCES TOWNSEND Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in th... FRANCES TOWNSEND divorce this from partisan politics. FRANCES TOWNSEND equally important that we not permit this valuable tool to be caught up in unnecessary rhetoric. FRANCES TOWNSEND As we're heading into this hurricane season, now is not the time to really look at moving organizati... FRAN TOWNSEND Yes there's a better way to organize it... we look forward to working with the committee. 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