Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes
Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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He does not want a rapid break in bond prices to snuff out the jobs recovery before it has a chance to catch hold.
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I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.
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There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.
