Otto Hermann Kahn Quotes
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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Money often costs too much.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Once, I went to the roof of a project and saw a hawk perched on the rail; always, you see the city in the near distance, its towers and spires studded with lights, both stately and slapdash, like the crazy geometry of rock crystal. There were many days when you felt sorry for people who worked inside.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
