Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes
There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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I'm always late.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.
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Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.
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I believe 99% of success is never giving up.
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To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.
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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
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There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
