Ernesto Bertarelli Quotes
If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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It's fun until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious.
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
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We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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Actually, I consider both Nightwish and Revamp equal.
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I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
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It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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If you have a life which is adrenaline-charged all week long because you're a powerful CEO, or you have responsibilities and you're committed to the people you look after, it's very difficult on weekends to sit around the garden. So you probably look for something which gives you the same sort of adrenaline buzz.
