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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Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.
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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
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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.
