Sanford I. Weill Quotes
From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
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Nothing human is foreign to us.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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I love my country so much.
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No bodyguards, no fuckin' Lear jets, no fuckin' tour bus, no 50 people following you around every day. We all had to go away from each other and the music industry for a while.
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From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
