Andy Grove Quotes
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.
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I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.
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Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
