Bob Iger Quotes
You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.
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Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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You try things creatively all the time, and while you want every one of them to be great, and you set out to do that, that's not always going to end up being the case.
