Ian Schrager Quotes
When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
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Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
