Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
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I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
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I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
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I've learned that exercise alone is not enough to stay healthy - it's a whole lifestyle.
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If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
