James Sinegal Quotes
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
Quotes to Explore
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
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People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.
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If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
