Chris Menges Quotes
You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
Quotes to Explore
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.
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Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.
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If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'
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You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
