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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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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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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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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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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When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.
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Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'
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The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
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I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
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Leaders grasp nettles.
