Michael Dell Quotes
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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We have many good keepers in Germany, and that's why you can never let your form dip.
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Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
