Chip Conley Quotes
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
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Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.
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We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.
