1947 Quotes
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1947 Quotes & Sayings
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As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
— Patrick Lencioni
A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947
— Edna Ferber
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
— William Styron
I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.
— Robert M. Edsel
I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
— Richard Widmark
He'd always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
— Truman Capote
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
— Samuel Richardson
In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
— Martin Ryle
Well, in 1947 ... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
— Giovanni Agnelli
If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
— William Shakespeare
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
— Winston Churchill
The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.
— Harry M. Wyatt III
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
— Pauline Kael
Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea. But weak ones never do.
— Joe Abercrombie
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
— Pranab Mukherjee
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.
— Gloria Estefan
