Douglas Conant Quotes
Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Justice is revenge.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
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In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.
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'The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.'
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Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
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Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
