Harry von Zell Quotes
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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Lighten your palette his remark to Cézanne circa 1873, to encourage Cézanne to use bright colors, paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.
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I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.
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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
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I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the '80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, 'Look, you're just not marketable enough with the weight problem.'
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
