Partner Quotes

"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner"

Jo Ann Emerson, Politician

"You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place"

Sacha Guitry, Director

"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable"

May Sarton, Poet

"I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him"

Delta Burke, Actress

"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most"

Eleanora Duse, Actress

"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help"

Bubba Smith, Athlete

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother"

Frank Pittman

"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried"

Rob Schneider, Comedian

"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey"

Treat Williams, Actor

"For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal"

Tim Holden, Politician

"I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship"

Pierre Pettigrew, Politician

"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch"

Wilford Brimley, Actor

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration"

Mercer Reynolds, Businessman

"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"

Jonathan Demme, Director

"I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people"

Viktor Yanukovych, Statesman

"In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist"

Tony Lema, Athlete

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