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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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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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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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.
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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
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During the production of the Steamboy film, what I put my most effort in was the process of layouts, and I did my best to check every detail. Once this process is done precisely, we will get great backgrounds from our art team. This makes the team effort fun. I can't create a movie by myself. It is worthy only because many staff bring new ideas and techniques. I think the appeal of being the director is to encounter such new things, which I don't possess. It is absolutely wonderful to create something new based on teamwork. It is something that I couldn't appreciate in my cartoonist days.
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
