Eric Staal Quotes
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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We have before us all the pieces of the puzzle that it takes to make a worm. Now we need to figure out how it works.
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
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Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
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It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.
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Hopefully, he's all right because he's a big part of our team. We are going to need him.
