Douglas Conant Quotes
You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.
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The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, it doesn't matter to us. We have an audience and continue to serve that audience.
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The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.
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We want the public to feel ownership in the process. We have to look at our finances. We have $1.5-million to work with. We are operating under two constraints -- time and money. If the public comes back with more (money for other options), it's up to council to approve it. Council is an integral part of the process.
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
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You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.
