Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
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These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
