Fairfax Cone Quotes
Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I will not talk to journalists about anything that does not concern my work as a scientist or lecturer.
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I always enjoy where I'm at throughout the world.
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Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
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I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.
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Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
