Clarence Douglas Dillon Quotes
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
Quotes to Explore
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there.
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The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
