Zach Condon Quotes
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
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It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
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I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
