Arthur Demarest Quotes
One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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My parents have always been very open.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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There are a lot of top-notch shows in Canada.
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I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.
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When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.
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The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
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I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
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One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.
