Brian Acton Quotes
When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!
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When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.
