Magic Johnson Quotes
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
