Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes
If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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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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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.
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Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
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To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.
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Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?
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If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.
