Oleg Cassini Quotes
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
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For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
