David Droga Quotes
There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
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My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
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Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.
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I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.
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I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.
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There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.
