John Krasinski Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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Music is not my business, communication is; and so I have, through my life, tried to communicate through music.
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.
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It's tough to live in New York and be in the business.
