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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If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.
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I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.
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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
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In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
