Hansjorg Wyss Quotes
I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life...The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
