Mark Cuban Quotes
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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Ultimately love is everything.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
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Optimism is cowardice.
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Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.
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I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.
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If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
