Douglas Conant Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.
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Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
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Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
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With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.
