Bob Mayer Quotes
One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
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When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
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The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.
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One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
