Nancy Duarte Quotes
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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I could quite settle back in to this touring lark. I'd forgotten for a moment how dumb and vaguely repetitious it can be. And surprisingly fun at times. Richmond VA tonight and tomorrow I think it's Charlotte NC but I might have to check on that before I end up in the wrong city.
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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
