William Goldman Quotes
And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.
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You become a great writer by writing.
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I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.
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And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
