William Greider Quotes
Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
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You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.
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I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.
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I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
