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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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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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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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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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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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.
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I will never retire.
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Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.
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I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!
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We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.
