Alex Bogusky Quotes
You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
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Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.
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I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name.
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Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
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Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.
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You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
