Niels Diffrient Quotes
The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't really go out at all.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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You live and you learn. When we were younger we wanted to party nonstop and have a good time. That’s all good, but things are different now. We still have our little bit of fun in both worlds. It’s nice to be able to travel the world with the kids.
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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
