Aaron Douglas Quotes
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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I always look forward, not back.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
