David Neeleman Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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I grew up in New York.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.
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The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
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It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term 'isolationist' at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
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Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
