William Hartung Quotes
The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
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If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.
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I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.
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The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
