Brad D. Smith Quotes
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
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Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
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I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.
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About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
