John Naisbitt Quotes
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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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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We're not show-business people. We have a life.
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I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.
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I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
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Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
