Nancy Mitford Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Accept loss forever.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.
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When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
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It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
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You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
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Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.
