Joe Kaeser Quotes
It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
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It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
