Mark Mobius Quotes
What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I don't care about revenues.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
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Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
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What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
