Muhammad Yunus Quotes
A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
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There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.
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We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.
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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
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A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
