Walter Lang Quotes
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo -
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti -
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
Lake Bell -
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A. R. Rahman -
The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
Maelle Gavet -
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
Damian Lewis -
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. Hinton -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Omar N. Bradley -
I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
B. B. King -
People work hard.
Iain Duncan Smith
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My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
Danny Meyer -
I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
Martin Scorsese -
I think people will be really shocked when they see this because people are used to eating portions that are so much bigger.
Marion Nestle -
The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
Louis Sullivan -
There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.
J. J. Abrams -
Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang