David Ogilvy Quotes
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
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Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'
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That’s the thing about success: It’s a constant hustle. Success is never owned—it’s rented, and rent is due every damn.
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The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
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