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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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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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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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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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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I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
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I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
