Tom Golisano Quotes
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.
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I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.
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It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.
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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
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Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.
