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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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
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Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
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When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
