John Roos Quotes
In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.
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When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
