James C. Collins Quotes
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
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I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
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We are rogues and vagabonds waiting by the phone, there to hire for our talents. A bit like prostitutes.
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p. 73
