William Hurt Quotes
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.
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It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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Only the insecure strive for security.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.
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The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.
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If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?
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It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.
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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
