Ernst Haas Quotes
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.
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On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.
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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
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If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
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I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.
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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
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For me, I try not to set any goals or try and see what's gonna happen, because I don't wanna be let down or disappointed that something didn't happen the way I thought it was gonna happen.
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I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.
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I don't think I'm an outsider at all.
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I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
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When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?
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Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
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Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
