Saul Griffith Quotes
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Meaning is not in things but in between them.
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It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
