John Key Quotes
It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
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I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
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explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. 'They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming'
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It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.
