Ian Schrager Quotes
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
