Chip Conley Quotes
I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
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I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
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If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. Im sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.
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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
