David Dixon Quotes
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Food can change anything.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I don't fear anything now.
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We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
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California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
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Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
