Hale Irwin Quotes
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
