Joel Siegel Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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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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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
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To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
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Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.
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I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.
