John Naisbitt Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.
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In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
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Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.