Stanley Baldwin Quotes
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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I love Chris Brown. He's a superstar. He's one of the best singers out there.
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On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
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Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination.
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From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
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It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.
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I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
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So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
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The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.
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Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
