Dan Wieden Quotes
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I was a tomboy.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I have a hyper personality.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
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I called my mom sobbing when Birdie was a few months old and said, 'I'm sorry. All this time, I had no idea how much you loved me.'
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When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.
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All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
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I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.
