Brad D. Smith Quotes
I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.
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At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
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Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…
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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
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I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.
