Michael Baden Quotes
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
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For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
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Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
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The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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The people who died were hit by shrapnel.
