John Paul DeJoria Quotes
I like to live well and I feel good about it because I know how much we give back. There's plenty for my family, now let's take care of the rest.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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But most good movies have a gun in them.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.
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'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
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One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.
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I like to live well and I feel good about it because I know how much we give back. There's plenty for my family, now let's take care of the rest.
