Foster Friess Quotes
The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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People take things so seriously.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Let us have peace.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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I hate competition.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
