Bill Drayton Quotes
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
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My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
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Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
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Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.
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In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'
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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
