Albert Hadley Quotes
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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I use Redken color on my hair and use mild shampoos that don't strip your hair of color. If I need to, I'll use a good colored mousse in between.
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.
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With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
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I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.
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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
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Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
