Barry Farber Quotes
Light from an ordinary flame is unfocused and flickers impotently, while a laser beam is highly focused light and will cut steel. If you and your business are not focused, your efforts will diffuse into nothing.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Light from an ordinary flame is unfocused and flickers impotently, while a laser beam is highly focused light and will cut steel. If you and your business are not focused, your efforts will diffuse into nothing.
