I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. – Aaron Levie
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings. – Andrew Lau
If what I’ve been told is true – and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. – Eric Massa
I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money. – Gary Coleman
I don’t like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn’t going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they’re short, prompt and to the point. – Eli Broad
If we have meetings, I try to schedule the meetings at different restaurants I want to try – so I always suggest the restaurants. – Geoffrey Zakarian
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don’t always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it’s just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect. – Majora Carter
Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director. – Charlie Ebersol
Lately, I’ve been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because… ‘Women don’t go to movies.’ Really? – Nia Vardalos
I have actually had to ask my supervisors not to curse in meetings or in general in the workplace. – Monica Johnson
I can’t say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn’t go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice. – Cathy Moriarty
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you’d expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off. – Donald Pleasence
We’re talking to New Line. They’ve got a couple projects they’re interested in me doing and I’m having meetings at MGM. There’s a lot of available projects. – David R. Ellis
I’m very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don’t really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity. – David Karp
I’d be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies. – Frances O’Grady
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn’t take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered. – Peter L. Bergen
The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. – Dan Quayle
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren’t treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair. – Gary Sheffield
My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers’ meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that’s very exciting. – Dominik Garcia-Lorido
I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn’t want to be away for six months of the year. I’ve never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can’t say to my wife, ‘I’m going to wait by a pool for six months.’ – Eddie Marsan
I don’t have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly. – Chris Liddell
It used to be presumed that if you weren’t at your desk working, you weren’t working, But we said, ‘Why can’t we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?’ Sometimes that’s where your better creative work happens. – David Chipperfield
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan. – Patrick Stewart
I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed. – Michael Hirst
And I realized, when I’d come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I’d just landed from Mars. But I couldn’t do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. – Frank Gehry
Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way. – Ezra Taft Benson
Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I’m only 20, but the stuff I’m doing the average 20-year-old isn’t doing. – Derrick Rose
