Eric Schmidt Quotes
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
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I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.
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It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.
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Fast learners win.
