Alexander Elder Quotes
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
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I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
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We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
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I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
