Brian Acton Quotes
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I get homesick.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
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One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.
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I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
