Bob Herbold Quotes
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
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What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
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Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.
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Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
