Zig Ziglar Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.
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A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.
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I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
