Barry Sternlicht Quotes
There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
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When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me - I had two brothers - and we used to go in the early '80s and check out these grindhouse movies - a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.
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I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.
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Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.
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As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
