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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I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
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I think it might be nice to date someone not in the business.
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The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
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It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.
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The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.
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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.
