Byron Allen Quotes
I'm not chasing independence, I'm chasing Walt Disney. I'm looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.
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This bidding is just highlighting the value of assets, ... I increased my target for Disney to $27 in January. If it falls, it'll fall only modestly.
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I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.
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With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
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I'm not chasing independence, I'm chasing Walt Disney. I'm looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.
