Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
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Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.
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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
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I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
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There's a couple of things you shouldn't do to other humans and you shouldn't say to other humans that Khal Drogo does.
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There's no people like show people.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
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I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.
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Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.
