Al Ries Quotes
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Every wall is a door.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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I do not like violence.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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I love 'Glee.'
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
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The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.
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THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.
