David Korten Quotes
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately.
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What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy.
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All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.
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It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
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The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
