George Clooney Quotes
If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
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I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
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Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
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Those who believe that racial preferences can help to 'even the score' display, and reinforce, a manner of thinking about race that was the source of the injustice and that will, if it endures within our society, be the source of more injustice still.
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A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.
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I think there's been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people's decisions.
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If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
