Georgette Mosbacher Quotes
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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Music has always been around with me.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years.
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
