Steve Case (Stephen McConnell Case) Quotes
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
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I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
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What I see in Washington reminds me of what I saw in Montgomery when I was first elected Alabama's Attorney General. In Montgomery, corruption was the problem, so I assembled the finest public corruption prosecution team in the country. Their work wasn't always popular with the mainstream media or the local politicians. We didn't let that stop us.
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I like lip liners over lipsticks. I have so many of them from so many different brands, so I just pick the color that works.
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One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States.
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
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When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.
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If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
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Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.
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Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of them.
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Put your goals on paper, or an Excel spreadsheet. Measure every day, 'Did I do my best to...?' Your problems won't disappear, but you will exist in a different relation to them, and you will improve.
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You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
