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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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
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Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
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Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.
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It takes more than industry to industrialize.
