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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The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
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You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
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Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.
