Jan Chipchase Quotes
From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.
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In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.
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But the reality is that we are a folk band.
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From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
