E. Joseph Cossman Quotes
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
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Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
