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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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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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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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'
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I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.
