Steve Odland Quotes
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
