Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes
You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.
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You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.
