Adolph Alfred "Al" Taubman Quotes
Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
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I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.
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The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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How'm I doing?
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The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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Become an expert in one fundamental area of your market or business, no one starts out as a generalist.
