Emilio Estevez Quotes
We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.
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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
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Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
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Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.
