William E. Geist Quotes
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
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Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
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Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.
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Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
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I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
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But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
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My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
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I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.
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I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
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You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me.
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We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.
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Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
