David A. Siegel Quotes

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

David A. Siegel

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• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Know
  • Fighting
  • Security

• I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Experience
  • Miss
  • Julie

• If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Creative
  • Internet

• I have an agent now.

  

  Lena Dunham

• Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball-or go extinct.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Life
  • Blue

• “Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • Truth
  • Scientist
  • Studies

• If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Future

• The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

  

  David A. Siegel