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Quotes on symbolic leadership and real influence.

Figurehead quotes revolve around a real tension: how much power does a public face actually hold? One quote credits Walt Disney with a rare, visible kind of leadership other studio heads, like Jack Warner, never sought.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Become
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Nov 07, 2020

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

Quotes by Pam Bondi

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

Quotes by Leonard Maltin

Nov 07, 2020

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

Quotes by David Prowse

Band
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Quotes by Chrissie Hynde

Nov 07, 2020

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Political examples follow, including a defense of a former president's underestimated grasp of policy despite a figurehead reputation, and a candid account of nearly turning down an offer to head a government safety campaign over the same worry. Even a campaign for attorney general raised the fear of becoming nothing but a symbolic name.

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