Napoleon Hill Quotes
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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I love to smile.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
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There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
