Behdad Sami Quotes
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
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When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.
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I know exactly what I want to buy and I spend very little time, maybe 15 hours a year, buying stuff. I'll go in and out of Dunhill in 45 minutes and pick out a few suits. Boom. And I'm gone. I get my shirts at Charvet. I go in there - woosh - and buy 12 shirts and some ties; once a year and that's it.
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I've been lucky to be at companies that have been at interesting intersections at the time I've been able to run them and lead them.
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Just because you are famous and rich doesn't make you successful.
