Douglas Conant Quotes
You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
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You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.
