Christopher Voss Quotes
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
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In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.
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Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.
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'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel essential to understanding the contemporary world in which we live.
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People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.
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Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
