C. S. Forester Quotes
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.
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It was a great feeling. It was just different, in that we had a going-away present from the fans last year in Montreal. And this year, it was like we had a home.
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It's dangerous to assert oneself.
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The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
