Chip Conley Quotes
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.
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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
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When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.
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Let us, using our double vision, travel two worlds in one and forma single double songthat splashes out in ripplesof thought and bloodthat eddy, wrinkle and wakethrough the double skiesof our single universe, and breakinto rainbow vowels that singsoft lullabies,and fall as lightin both our worlds.
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Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.
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Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
