Charlie Sykes Quotes
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
Charlie Sykes
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
Sam Altman
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts
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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon
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What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
Charlie Sykes