Alan Blinder Quotes
There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.
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If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.
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I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.
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It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.
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Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.
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There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.
