Zig Ziglar Quotes
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
