David F. D'Alessandro Quotes
It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
