John Quelch Quotes
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.
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When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
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And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.
