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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Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
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When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
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Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
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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.
