Charles W. Scharf Quotes
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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Everyone had something unique to offer in life and their responsibility was to develop those gifts - and heroes come from all backgrounds.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
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A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.
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The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
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Only criminals want to use cash.
