#ego

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. ↗

— Michael Caine

#anything #been #best #choice #egotistical

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#big #category #considered #director #italy

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#nine #past #period #questioning #represented

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

I had to let my ego go a long time ago. ↗

— Sally Field

#ego #go #had #i #long

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#country #course #necessarily #negotiating #other

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#although #am #asia #assistance #because

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad. ↗

— George Clooney

#brad #brad pitt #category #cruise #fit

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools