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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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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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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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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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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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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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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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Along the way, I learned a lot about being told I didn't have the right skills for the jobs I wanted and how to overcome the setbacks and keep pushing forward. This is why I've become an Ambassador for LifeSkills, a programme created by Barclays to help one million young people get the skills they need for work.
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A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.
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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.
