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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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
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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.
