Roberto Unger Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I'm easily entertained.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
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The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
