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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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
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In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
