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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I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I still got the nasty in me.
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They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
