Jeff Raikes Quotes
In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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Although no credible evidence exists that the speed of light can be exceeded, writers are willing to embrace the possibility that light might be outpaced somehow. Never underestimate the persuasive power of somehow.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
