David Duffield Quotes
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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I just love dancing.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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If one wants to make a machine mimic the behaviour of the human computer in some complex operation one has to ask him how it is done, and then translate the answer into the form of an instruction table. Constructing instruction tables is usually described as 'programming.'
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I eat steak primarily. That's pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.
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The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
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Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use celebrities' voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
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You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
