Howard Baker Quotes
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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The spirit of Hitler is not dead.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.
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And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
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The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
