Biz Stone Quotes
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.
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This language is beginning to invent another me.
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With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
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