Scott McNealy Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.
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In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
