Alexander Jablokov Quotes
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
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The poignancy which all beauty has.
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Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
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Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.
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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
