Tom Allen Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
Yair Lapid
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
Pat Brown -
You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
Jack Black -
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
Fran Drescher -
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln -
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince -
People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
Sam Smith -
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
Ian Frazier -
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama -
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Manuel Puig -
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Zubin Mehta
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
Ian Mckellen -
I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
Paul Weller Incognito -
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani -
Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
Angela Cartwright -
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen