David Ogilvy Quotes
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation of the entire economy.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
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I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
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Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.
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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
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I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
