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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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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I am not too technical in my acting, and I feel when I get too technical it becomes unbelievable.
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If at the end of the year you want to be in this race, you've got to start stepping up and getting wins.
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You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.
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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.
