Calin Rovinescu Quotes
What I measure the most is the fact that we are a much more durable, sustainable company that can bob and weave with whatever we meet. And that is the true measure of success for me in terms of leadership.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
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What I measure the most is the fact that we are a much more durable, sustainable company that can bob and weave with whatever we meet. And that is the true measure of success for me in terms of leadership.
