Kent Conrad Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
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I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
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'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
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I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
