Ricardo Semler Quotes
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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It's a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it's sort of unreal in a sense.
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Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
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In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
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We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
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I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
