Douglas Conant Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.
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At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious'... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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I am not afraid to cross the party line. I never have been.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.