David Talbot Quotes
I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
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Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
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We don't take confession seriously enough. If we did, our lives would be radically different.
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I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
