John Naisbitt Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostess. I did a lot of jobs; I struggled a lot. I got out from there. The first thing I did when I got out of Darul Aman was my Matric. Then I did my Bachelors privately; I kept doing it.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
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I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.
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There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it-it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it-you don't know what right is and you're not a man.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.
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Not all stories are meant for the big screen.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
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Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
