Nido Qubein Quotes
Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
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Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
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Talk is cheap; play the game.
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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
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I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
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Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
