Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright.
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Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.
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I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.
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It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.
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Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.
