Victor Kiam Quotes
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
