Alex Bogusky Quotes
The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
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The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
