Christopher Voss Quotes
The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don't take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for 'yes' or afraid of 'no,' so they don't ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I've heard many people say, 'Well, that's a non-starter, so we won't even bring it up.'
Christopher Voss
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
T Bone Burnett
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein
You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
Danica McKellar
Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
Yvonne Strahovski
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb
Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
Daniel D. Palmer
I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
Jack White
The White Stripes
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
Edmund White
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
Ed Royce
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
Dan Jenkins
Making a film is a challenge.
Bennett Miller
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
Mary Oliver
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
John Bardeen
We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.
Bill Clinton
You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
Brad Pitt
The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don't take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for 'yes' or afraid of 'no,' so they don't ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I've heard many people say, 'Well, that's a non-starter, so we won't even bring it up.'
Christopher Voss
