Bill Dedman Quotes
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I never lie to my fans.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'
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I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
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Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.
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Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
