Dan Gilbert Quotes
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.
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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
