Ricardo Semler Quotes
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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To be happy, make other people happy.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
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In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
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You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.
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If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
