John Naisbitt Quotes
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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Being evil is easy.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
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'Greek Street' is a very strange beast. I think of it as 'The Long Good Friday' meets 'Agamemnon.' A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world.
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In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
