Mario Testino Quotes
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.
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When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
