Gail Simmons Quotes
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.
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Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner.
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It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.
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I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.
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Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
