Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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T Rex could not run.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
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First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
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My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
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My kids' books all have a darkness to them.
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
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No one can understand my accent!
