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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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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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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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
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It is not possible for a single person to be working outstanding miracles, signs and wonders which millions of other Nigerians cannot do and for such a person to be an agent of Satan. They - the God's generals - should combine forces and deliver such a satanic person or get rid of him.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
