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.

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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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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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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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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
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Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.
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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
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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.