Douglas Conant Quotes
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.
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After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.
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One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.
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The time to build a network is always before you need one.
