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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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
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We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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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.'
