Nolan Bushnell Quotes
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.
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We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
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I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.
