Douglas Conant Quotes
Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
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Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.
