Walt Whitman Rostow (Walt Rostow) Quotes
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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It takes three to make a child.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?
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Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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We learned within Trailblazer that when we asked industry for something they had or something close to what they already had, they were remarkable in providing us a response, an outcome, ... When we asked them for something that no one had yet invented, they weren't any better at inventing it than we were in doing it ourselves.
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When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
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What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
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I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.
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What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?
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I went to the Big Island of Hawaii and sat in a house on a point by the ocean. I thought about some of the amazing things I had seen recently in the industry. Two of the most spectacular were the emergence of the browser 18 months before, and Amazon.com.
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As federal funds have become scarcer and the competition has increased, I think we see a lot of universities expanding their partnerships with industry.
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The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.
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I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.
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But in the end you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and Caesars and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by the empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. You can try to hybridize them and compromise them for centuries, but like oil and water they eventually separate and prove incompatible. They refuse to alloy. They produce irreconcilable narratives and create different worlds.
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It takes more than industry to industrialize.
