Ben Moody Quotes
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I don't read the critics.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
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When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.
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Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
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Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.
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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
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I don't even have a jeep, let alone a bomb-proof jeep.
