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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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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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 wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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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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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
