Brian Solis Quotes
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For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
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The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
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We don't do 150 date tours because you couldn't keep the intensity and standard we need over that stretch of time. You see bands doing it all the time, playing along, going through the motions, thinking 'Did I water the plants?' We come to each gig fresh and we live that gig, it is full-on, total commitment. It is an hour of pure concentration.
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
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Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.
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I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.
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For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.
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Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.
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I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.
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My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
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Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
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Brands are no longer created; they are co-created.
