Steven Amsterdam Quotes
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.
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I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.
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It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
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I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
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Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
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I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.
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Over the years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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'I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow', Eeyore was saying. 'Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather.'
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The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
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But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.
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I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.
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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
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Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
