Dan Monson Quotes
Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
Quotes to Explore
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Standing outside the fire;Standing outside the fire.Life is not tried, it is merely survivedIf you're standing outside the fire.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.
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Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
