Harrison Ford Quotes
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.Harrison Ford
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
Narendra Modi -
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
Page McConnell -
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
Natalia Vodianova -
The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
Oscar Isaac -
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
Jack Levine -
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White -
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
Baz Luhrmann -
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
Dan Pink -
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg -
Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
Frances O'Grady -
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
Sam Elliott -
I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
Harold Pinter -
Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
Tahl Raz -
I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
Ed Koch
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Despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one.
Daniel Lyons -
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
Tadashi Yanai -
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac -
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.
Joan Didion -
By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.
Kyle Hill -
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford