Aaron Karo Quotes
It's funny because I always thought I knew what I wanted to do. It became apparent to me that working for an investment bank for 13 months was 12 months too long.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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It's funny because I always thought I knew what I wanted to do. It became apparent to me that working for an investment bank for 13 months was 12 months too long.
