Chip Conley Quotes
When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
Quotes to Explore
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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Music is the only thing that I trust.
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
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Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.
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I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
