Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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'I don't want to make a mistake,' said the Will softly. 'Better not to make a decision than to make a mistake.' 'The whole House is going to fall down if you don't make a decision!' Arthur argued.
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I stuck my dick in this game like a rapist. They call me 'Slim Roethlisberger'!
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.
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Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.
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In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
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Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.
