Gene Edwards Quotes
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.
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I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
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We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.
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I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.
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This business - the auditions, the anxiety - it's all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.
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The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
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Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
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Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.
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Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.
