Tilman J. Fertitta (Tilman Joseph Fertitta) Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
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Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.
