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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Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
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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.
