Bernard Marcus Quotes
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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'People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.'
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You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.
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Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
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People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
