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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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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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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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.
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I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
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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.
