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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I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.
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Consciousness must essentially cover an interval of time; for if it did not, we could gain no knowledge of time, and not merely no veracious cognition of it, but no conception whatever. We are therefore, forced to say that we are immediately conscious through an infinitesimal interval of time.
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Oh, I like to take classes every chance that I get. If I'm not working after about four or five months, I'll jump back into a class.
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Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.
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I think everybody has a secret life.
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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.
