Val Venis Quotes
You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!

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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
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'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'
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The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.
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I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
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I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
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I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.
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I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.
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Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?
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It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
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You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!