John T. Chambers Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
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I'm a sporting goods guy.
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Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.
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If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.
